Maasai Cultural Experience

Itinerary

Day 1: Day 1: Nairobi-Maji Moto

Pass By: Loita Forest, Narok, Kenya
Drive from Nairobi at 8am via Narok to Maji Moto Maasai Cultural camp, which will take approximately 4 hours. It is nestled at the northern foot of the Loita Hills. Maji Moto means hot water in Kiswahili and true enough a pure, steaming spring pours out of the rocks. After watching the sunset from a hillside view-point you can bathe in the natural hot water as people have done for thousands of years before you. Around you are glassy volcanic flakes, used for making stone tools from before the times of iron. Next, an evening meal cooked on wood fires under the stars before you retire to your tent, protected through the night by Maasai warriors.All meals and overnight at Maji Moto Camp.

Meals included:
• Breakfast: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Maji Moto Cultural Camp

Day 2: Nature walk and Culture Experience

Stop At: Loita Hills Hiking Camp, Loita Hills, Narok, Kenya
After an early breakfast walk with the Maasai up into the Loita Hills. This is a very remote part of Maasailand, seen by very few visitors. You will be introduced to the sounds, sights and smells of the bush – each plant, or bird, or insect has a story to tell. These will become familiar to you on future walks, and you’ll feel a closeness to the land that no tourist in a minibus will ever understand.

Return to the camp for lunch, followed by an afternoon visit to a Maasai boma or homestead. Here you’ll be introduced to the work of the women and life of the children. There will be time for sitting down in the shade and making the famous colored bead work jewelery – necklaces, earrings, bracelets – and if they don’t come up to professional standards, you can buy beautifully crafted jewellery from the women of the village as souvenirs. You might also get a chance to try your hand at milking goats, fetching water with the kids from the spring or cooking chapattis on the always-lit fire in the huts. The day ends with an evening meal and a chance to learn Maasai songs round the camp fire.

Duration: 7 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Maji Moto Cultural Camp

Day 3: Bush experience

Stop At: Loita Forest, Narok, Kenya
Wake early, have a light breakfast, and set off into the bush. Along the way you will learn the essentials of survival in the bush, such as how to throw spears and clubs, make and shoot slingshots and make arrows with a deadly paste of the poison tree made from boiled leaves. You’ll learn how to light fire without matches, and be introduced to many different plants and herbs that are used as traditional medicines and tonics. You’ll begin to spot the tracks of animals – large and small – where you previously just saw earth, and to recognize the signs and sounds the animals make when danger threatens. After sundown you’ll fall asleep under the protection of the Maasai whilst listening to the evocative sounds of the African night all around.
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Maji Moto Cultural Camp

Day 4: Maji Moto- Maasai Mara

Stop At: Maasai Mara National Reserve Kenya, Narok 00100 Kenya
After breakfast you will leave Maji moto to Maasai Mara.Ecologically the Masai Mara is an extension of the great Serengeti plains and teems with abundant wildlife. We spend all today in the reserve on game drives and this is where you can see elephant, buffalo, lion, cheetah, leopard, zebra, giraffe, hippo, crocodile and a whole ark-full of other animals. Our expert naturalist guides ensure you have the very best chance of seeing them all as well as offer details of their life cycle. From July to September, the Mara is home to the great wildebeest migration. Overnight again in our comfortable tented permanent safari camp.
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Lenchada Camp or manyatta Camp

Day 5: Maasai Mara-Nairobi

Stop At: Nairobi National Park, Langata Road, Nairobi Kenya
Another early morning game drive in the Mara and then return to camp for breakfast before embarking on the journey back to Nairobi.
Duration: 6 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.