Maasai Village:
First everybody of our tour member was skeptical about visiting a Maasai village. Then we were persuaded by our driver/guide James and it turned out to be OK. Sure it is touristy and US$20.00 per person is a bit over-rated for what we got. Maasais are allowed to live and herd their livestock within national parks as long as they keep their traditional living way. But their position in local geopolitics is a sort like American Indians. They are entitled to education by the government but only few go to school. The land is not exactly owned by Maasais but is leased to them originally from British administration a hundred years ago with a lease consisting of only two paragraphs. Now the modern government is trying to rip the right from them. This land that they were entitled to live is not the most desirable for grazing or anything else. It seemed like women have to travel so much to fetch water. After all their traditional life style means that women do all the work. Men herd cattle and make fences for them, otherwise they are concentrating in dressing themselves up. Oh, one thing, they can jump really high.