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