I look for some interesting and unusual traditions and rituals in Africa.

Hi, I am a solitary traveller and the video camera is my inseparable
companion. I like to look for unusual traditions and rituals of ethnic
groups in danger of extinction. Primordial people.
I have gone to many countries around the world but I know Africa a
little bit only. I can travel in July-August.
Can you give me some info, please?
My email is:
thanks a lot,

bye Jones

why don't you try the Maasai Community of Kenya. People come from all
over the world to see them and they are considered to be among the Big
SIX. Anybody who has visited Kenya has always been amazed by their
special and simple life. They live in Mud houses usually made of
cowdung and live in the interior usually the wild animals are their
companion eg In the Maasai Mara but have been able to co exist with
them since time immemorial.
Their most valuable assets are
1 cattle
2 Spears
3 club.
For a Maasai young boy to be considered a moran (young adult warrior)
he was supposed to kill a lion but they still got other fascinating
cultures that will leave your mouth agape.

Hi, dear friend,
thanks a lot for your news.
I never considered Maasai Community because I thought it was too much
well-known. I am attracted to little ethnic groups toward extinction.
Perhaps because I have traveled very much and I have visited many communities.
Have you gone to their villages?
I think many of them now wear t-shirt, trousers and have renounced to their
original life.
Perhaps I have always made a mistake.
Do you know if there are some enogh intact Maasai villages in Kenya?
Where are they, please?
Thanks

why don't you try the Maasai Community of Kenya. People come from all
over the world to see them and they are considered to be among the Big
SIX. Anybody who has visited Kenya has always been amazed by their
special and simple life. They live in Mud houses usually made of
cowdung and live in the interior usually the wild animals are their
companion eg In the Maasai Mara but have been able to co exist with
them since time immemorial.
Their most valuable assets are
1 cattle
2 Spears
3 club.
For a Maasai young boy to be considered a moran (young adult warrior)
he was supposed to kill a lion but they still got other fascinating
cultures that will leave your mouth agape.

Jones they are many intact manyattas there,for confirmation ask anyone
who has been to Kenya and paid them guys a visit. The Maasai are the
only tribe of all the 42 in Kenya who have done away with modernity.
As an advice camping will give you closer attention to the Maasai
than living in the lodge, One of the most amazing is their meals, I
remember been woken up very early in the morning at around 0600HRS and
went to the cattle boma (shed) that holds like 200 cattles then someone
brought me a gourd while some Maasai Morans held tightly one of the
cows then one took an arrow and lightly speared it on the neck then I
was asked to hold my gourd tightly so that the blood could be spill in,
then later they some herbs to the wound and it stopped dripped and the
cow went on with its business.
That was not over some milk that had just been milked though unboiled
was handed to me and i was asked to mix them both the milk and the
blood with my bare fingers then had to take it directly from the
gourd, The feeling is still with me upto this day and I think it was
something i have never expirienced before in my life,
The second one was during the building of their manyattas talk of
mixing cowdung with soil and then with your hand you mould it into a
hut where you can live, then going to the forest to look for some
acacia stems to act as a fence from the wild animals.
The third one was grazing the animals, It sounds quite natural but do
you know that they graze the animals in the same field with the wild
animals,as in you may be there with your cows and a large herd of
elephants would be passing like a 100 metres from you, I was able to
spot some cheetah and a leopard on a tree though didn't bother us as we
had some morans with us and the animals tend to fear them.
Jones if you may ask me that would be a great place to go.

Thanks a lot for your detailed and interesting reply. Can you tell me how many
nights you slept at their village? Do you remember its name?
Is it in a very remote place of the Kenya?
How much time did you require to reach that village?
Thanks for some info.


Jones they are many intact manyattas there,for confirmation ask anyone
who has been to Kenya and paid them guys a visit. The Maasai are the
only tribe of all the 42 in Kenya who have done away with modernity.
As an advice camping will give you closer attention to the Maasai
than living in the lodge, One of the most amazing is their meals, I
remember been woken up very early in the morning at around 0600HRS and
went to the cattle boma (shed) that holds like 200 cattles then someone
brought me a gourd while some Maasai Morans held tightly one of the
cows then one took an arrow and lightly speared it on the neck then I
was asked to hold my gourd tightly so that the blood could be spill in,
then later they some herbs to the wound and it stopped dripped and the
cow went on with its business.
That was not over some milk that had just been milked though unboiled
was handed to me and i was asked to mix them both the milk and the
blood with my bare fingers then had to take it directly from the
gourd, The feeling is still with me upto this day and I think it was
something i have never expirienced before in my life,
The second one was during the building of their manyattas talk of
mixing cowdung with soil and then with your hand you mould it into a
hut where you can live, then going to the forest to look for some
acacia stems to act as a fence from the wild animals.
The third one was grazing the animals, It sounds quite natural but do
you know that they graze the animals in the same field with the wild
animals,as in you may be there with your cows and a large herd of
elephants would be passing like a 100 metres from you, I was able to
spot some cheetah and a leopard on a tree though didn't bother us as we
had some morans with us and the animals tend to fear them.
Jones if you may ask me that would be a great place to go.

I have done that twice all in one tour company first i did it in a camp
called Acacia then the other one the company that i was travelling by
the name of Diwaka Tours and Travel (very fair prices) provided the
tents and we erected them near the Manyattas. I spent 3 nights there
and had a lovely time we used to take walks, had a game drive with
highly proffessional drivers who knew where to get the elusive leopards
early in the morning and also late in the afternoon and on the last day
choose to have a baloon safaris.
I choose one of their package where you start with the Treetops on
the first day then proceed to Lake Nakuru to see the many
flamingoes,then proceed to lake Naivasha to see hippos in a boat ride
as well as the varieties of bird species then finally had to spend 3
days at the Vast Maasai Mara.
If you would like their website is www.diwakasafaris.com

sorry i forgot to indicate that it takes like 4 and a half hours from
Nairobi to Maasai Mara but from Nakuru its like 3 and a half.

Hi, I like to ask a last question, please.
In that maasai village do everybody wear traditional?
Perhaps do they wear traditional for the tourists?
I like to know it, pleaase,
thanks


I have done that twice all in one tour company first i did it in a camp
called Acacia then the other one the company that i was travelling by
the name of Diwaka Tours and Travel (very fair prices) provided the
tents and we erected them near the Manyattas. I spent 3 nights there
and had a lovely time we used to take walks, had a game drive with
highly proffessional drivers who knew where to get the elusive leopards
early in the morning and also late in the afternoon and on the last day
choose to have a baloon safaris.
I choose one of their package where you start with the Treetops on
the first day then proceed to Lake Nakuru to see the many
flamingoes,then proceed to lake Naivasha to see hippos in a boat ride
as well as the varieties of bird species then finally had to spend 3
days at the Vast Maasai Mara.
If you would like their website is www.diwakasafaris.com

No Jones they don't wear their traditional attires becouse of the
tourists. They wear them full time and have been with them since time
immemorial, When you go there you will see the men in red coloured
robe like clothes with open sandals made of leather (tyre like) that
act like shoes and are always with a club as for the women they have
big earrings which they believe is a sign of beauty.
One funny thin about the maasai is the way the stand, one leg goes
up to the knee of the other leg and then the spear is used as the
supporter.

Hi
Pleasec an you e mail me your e mail doesnt seem to work

thank you
Annya
Jones wrote:
Hi, I am a solitary traveller and the video camera is my inseparable
companion. I like to look for unusual traditions and rituals of ethnic
groups in danger of extinction. Primordial people.
I have gone to many countries around the world but I know Africa a
little bit only. I can travel in July-August.
Can you give me some info, please?
My email is:
thanks a lot,

bye Jones