The Financial Times
29 June 2007
By Rodrigo Orihuela
I’ve been blind since birth and I’m also 80 per cent deaf, yet I’ve travelled around the world alone, mostly as a backpacker. Travelling is hard enough when you can see and hear but when you’re disabled it can be twice as hard – and twice as easy.
Travelling when you’re blind is easy because you can’t see things like crowds,
My eBooks are travel biographies of the observations and experiences of a totally blind and partially deaf man as he travels independently around the world having exciting adventures. The most recent volume, Seeing a Slice of Southern Africa My Way, published 31 December 2020, is a journey of continued self-discovery as I plot my way from multi-cultural South Africa with its complex society, to Malawi, with its picturesque and peaceful nature. This third book takes the reader through parts of Southern Africa,
