Fourth Day

So, after the great experience that we had with the masais our expectations were very high with the Kikuyu. They are the biggest ethnic group in Kenya, even their president is one of them!

We followed …….. through the rift valley.The scenery was really amazing. I hate to admit it, but I was pretty scared that some wild animal would show up and we’d have an accident, but fortunately nothing happened. I have always wondered how those tribes avoid the animals, so I asked the boys and we tried to guess.

When we arrived we saw a large fence made with hawthorn branch, surprisingly Cristobal was right so, point for you :)

If you think about it it has a lot of sense because animals get hurt with the spines so they go away. The view was very interesting. There were quite a few huts, made of dung and chaff, placed randomly on the ground (no, it doesn’t smell that bad). The women were spread around them doing different tasks while the children ran half naked in some kind of game. The most important men in the tribe were waiting for us.

We were received by the spokesman of the group, he said that we were welcome and he showed us the shack in which we were going to spend the night. We noticed that all the doors were pointing in the same direction, towards Mount Kenya. This is because they believe that their god Ngay lives on this mountain. They still go up from time to time to celebrate sacrifices when there are problems.

He also told us that later, when it got dark, they were going to have a kind of party, where we would have meat for dinner and they would show us some of their typical dances, which we thought was a good idea.

And it was, the meet was made in some kind of barbeque and it was delicious, but i’m not sure about what kind of meet it was, i hope it was goat. After the dinner they show us some of their typical songs, surprisingly, they were very beautiful, we tried to understand something but it was impossible .

They told us that maybe tomorrow they can show us some typical dances, i´m very excited for it. So now, we are going to sleep, and lets see what happens tomorrow.