After our full day game drive, which DH and I was pleased about, we managed to see four of the big five, no rhinos, as there are only 15 in the park, so hard to spot. We all arranged a visit to the Masai Village located inside the park, the visit costs $35US and this money goes towards sustaining the village and educating their young children. Most of the children and adults did speak English.
The Masai men, when they turn 18 get circumcised and can marry at 25. They practice polygamy and need to have 10 or more cows per wife. Their parents choose the first wife and that wife chooses the next, he may then choose the third. Female circumcision is now outlawed, thank goodness, this happened about three years ago and with education it is no longer practiced in the Masai.
A video of the Masai men dancing and singing for us.
The Masai warriors will perform a dance, dedicated to the killing of a lion.
The Masai village huts are covered in cow dung and soil, the cattle are kept in the village of a night and through the day has a shepherd with them for protection from the wild animals.
A Masai grandmother with her Grandchildren.
The Masai women performing a wedding dance.
The Masai children, I took their photos and showed them, they know how to swipe an I Pad.
Masai mamma, sitting in the shade, doing her bead jewellery.
A young Masai warrior, who was enthralled with us white people, a good looking young man.
Entrance to the village
This slender young woman was coating her house in cow dung, she has 6 young boys, who all attend school. Their heads are shaved each week, this is a requirement for attending school which is free and compulsory.
This Masai woman has elongated earlobes, no longer practiced.
Their washing line.
The gathering of the Masai women,
Inside the village is a shop, where all the jewellery that is made by the Masai and are sold to visitors visiting the village.
These three men were demonstrating how they make fire.
These Masai mammas wait at the gate to Masai Mara reserve to sell their jewellery, which I purchased a few pieces.
this was a photo given to me by a professional photographer, taken early morning in the Masai Mara.
sunrise on Valentine’s Day in Masai Mara, this is where we spent Valentine’s Day, sunrise and sunset, awesome day.
This is a common site all through Kenya, the cattle, sheep and goats have shepherds with them. These are Masai warriors. This concludes our two days in the Masai Mara, another wonderful experience.
The next day, saw us depart for Lake Elementaita, what a drive that was! the main roads are not gravelled and due to recent rains, many potholes and divets are on the roads, that we travelled for more than two hours at a time.
Some of the roads we travelled.
Even on the tarred roads, traffic was chaos and raffertys rules.
Overtaking into oncoming traffic.
The roads in the national parks as well were rough, talk about being thrown about, time to depart onto our next adventure, Lake Elementaita.
The Masai women doing a wedding dance.
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