 ( Getty Images) The trip of a lifetime began with a visit to a museum in Nairobi where Lucy was allowed to touch the stuffed exhibits. As she now largely relies on her other senses, this helped Lucy begin to 'see' the animals she would be encountering on safari. She recalled how, as they drove back out of the city, her senses began to 'awaken'. Lucy wrote in an article for BBC News : "At the Ol Pejeta sanctuary, William and the keepers brilliantly described the rhinos and elephants in front of us - how they were moving, eating, reacting to us and each other. It all helped paint pictures in my head. James Mwenda, a global ambassador for the sanctuary, crouched down with me and we felt the footprint of a rhino in the dusty ground." Lucy felt her senses 'awaken' during her life-changing trip (Stock Photo) ( Getty Images) The group then headed out looking for lions, driving up so close to one lioness that Lucy could actually he){kind=link}
A woman who lost her sight as a teenager feared she’d never be able to enjoy a holiday again, but soon changed her mind after embarking on the ‘best trip’ of her life
A woman was worried she’d never be able to enjoy a holiday again after losing her vision at the age of just 17, and couldn’t see the point of going sight-seeing if she couldn’t actually see anything.
But everything changed however after she embarked on what she now regards as the ‘best trip’ of her life.
Lucy Edwards, 27, recounted her life-changing trip to the 90,000-acre Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, where her assumptions about travelling while blind were changed forever. Accompanied by her guide William, Lucy started ‘from scratch’ when pulling together an idea of what the animals would look like, her visual memories having almost ‘completely gone’.
The trip of a lifetime began with a visit to a museum in Nairobi where Lucy was allowed to touch the stuffed exhibits. As she now largely relies on her other senses, this helped Lucy begin to ‘see’ the animals she would be encountering on safari. She recalled how, as they drove back out of the city, her senses began to ‘awaken’.