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Disabled travellers
Travelling in India can entail some fairly rigorous challenges, even for the able-bodied traveller-long bus trips in crowded vehicles between remote villages and endless queues in the scorching heat at bus and train stations can test even the hardiest traveller. If you can't walk. These challenges are increased many-fold. Few buildings have wheelchair access; toilets have certainly not been designed to accommodate wheelchairs; footpaths, where they exist (only in larger towns), are generally riddled with holes, littered with obstacles and packed with throngs of people, severely restricting mobility.
Nevertheless, many disabled travellers are taking on the challenge of travel in India. Seeing the mobility impaired locals whiz through city traffic at breakneck speed in modified bicycles might even serve as inspiration! If your mobility is restricted you will need a strong, able-bodied companion to accompany you, and it would be well worth considering hiring a private vehicle and driver.
One organisation that may be able to assist with information on travel practicalities in India for disabled people is the
Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation or RADAR
Tel: 020-7250 3222, fax 250 0212
email: radar@radar.org.uk
at 12 Cuty Forum, 250 City Rd, London EC1V 8AF, UK.
It also has a web site - www.radar.org.uk
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