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Maasai village

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Even though I'm home now, the stories will continue 😊 I decided to divide the Maasai Mara experience into two parts in order to reduce the amount of pictures and thus the crashing of the software. Without further ado, here is part two of the Maasai Mara.  One afternoon we decided to visit our spotter Rarin's Maasai village that is located in the Mara. [edit] On the road to the village Jacop and Rarin explained to us the essentials of Maasai customs and family life. I'll just write down the few things I still remember. The Maasai economy traditionally has two major activities: herding of cows and goats (mainly men's work) as well as the crafting of bracelets, necklaces, earrings and all kinds of other decorative stuff (mainly women's work). When Maasai merry, the husband's family pays the wife's family the price of ten cows. So for a financially sustainable family situation it is good if you have a balance of daughters and sons. Then it is of course good bus...
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Maasai Mara

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 Now we get to an absolute highlight of the trip, that I'd recommend everybody to do when visiting Kenya! It's one of mother nature's great wonders: the Maasai Mara. It's basically the Kenyan part of the more famous Serengeti as it is called in nearby Tanzania. The Maasai Mara is very sparsely populated by the indigenous Maasai people and is a savanna full of animals. That's why this part three is the bombastic finale of our animal series. [Author's note: Since this was such a beautiful part of our trip, this post is gonna contain a lot of pics. I'm already getting prepared to the mental challenge not to throw the iPad out of the window when dealing with blogger.com's retarded picture upload. 😵] Flight The most efficient way to get there is by flight with a small plane – in our case from Nairobi. On our way there we landed four times on small airfields in the Mara and delivered or picked up passengers. Luckily the weather was good, so we could already e...
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Location: Masai Mara, Kenya
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