Your visit of a Masai Village begins when the Manyatta (collection
of Masai homes that form a village) Chief meet you at the Manyatta's
gate and introduces himself. The chief will then assign you a
young Moran (Il kelian) who will take you around the village and who
will also be the interpreter mediating between you and the locals so
that stories are exchanged - of course our tour guide will also
accompany you.
Masai Moran - Warriors |
Masai Warrior Dance |
Greetings will be exchanged between you and the villagers
and you will be invited to join in the singing and dancing
- a warrior dance which consists of singing and energetic
jumping, a stretch of your leg muscles.
You will then be welcomed into one of the village huts to see how
the inside looks like. You will be shown the Kitchen, the children
sleeping area, the traditional bedding which is a soft goat skin.
Later you will go out and be shown how the Masai make fire using
very soft grass, dried elephant poop and pieces of soft and very
hard wood.
rubbing sticks between a very hard wood and very soft grass
and dried elephant poop to make fire. This task is a reserve
of the Masai men |
As soon as the friction created start causing the
soft grass and the elephant poop to produce smoke a
Moran will blow into the grass and a fire will be
created |
To say good-bye the women will treat you to some very
interesting singing, you will also be invited to join in and
dance.
The locals will sell some of their wares to you so please have
some liquid cash to purchase a souvenir to take home with you
Masai Women song and dance |
some of the items you can buy from the Masai Village
Tour |
Apart from these activities you may also ask as many questions as
possible to satisfy your curiosity about the most fabled people of
East Africa - the Masai
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