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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Travel
Julia Banim

Blind woman who feared she'd never love travel again enjoys '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'.

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