Second Day

We wake up energetic knowing that today starts our experience with Masais tribe.

So, after leaving  the hostel we move to the bus station, where we have an appointment with Loresen.

Loresen is the guy who is going to take us to the Masais village, he belongs to the Masais.

He receives us with a cell phone and a gps, it seems that he has changed it for the spears.

Our trip lasts around six hours by car, but our Masai guide makes it shorter tellings us stories about the Masais. For example, They live through the rift valley, The Masais are nomads and  they have been called lion warriors  for a long time due to their battle for the cattle.

Once we arrive to the Masai Mara, Loresen introduces us to his family with five sons and four daughters.It cannot be forgotten that the Maasai culture is polygamous, therefore Loresen has four wives.

While his wives are preparing a tea  we are fascinated looking at around us the different houses where we are going to sleep, named “bomas”.

Suddenly, Mallie brings our tea and Loresen welcomes us toasting for nature and for us to feel free with them.

The sky is getting dark, so it is time to prepare the dinner. Most of Maasais are cattle rancher, although things are changing  to keep surviving in peace with nature and lions.
They take us to their cattle where they chose one piece for dinner.

After have dinner with all of them, we repose our food enjoying the famous Maasai dance.It is a kind of dance  where they jump in circle, it is really funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzAFzsCDVCg

Lucia and Juanra recorded it.

Finally, Loresen told us that we needed to sleep due to the fact that tomorrow we would go with him to see what is his new job. Surprise!!!

Travel to Kenya

First day in Kenya

Nature, wildlife, cultural shock, madness on the streets of Nairobi and the most desired by us,
to know about different tribes in Kenya. These were some of the thoughts that we had before to start this adventure.

While Juanra and me were smoking a cigarette in front of the taxi stand,
Lucia decided to start to exchanging some words with the taxi drivers to bargain the price of our trip to the center of Nairobi.

Once we arrived to our hostel, called Rainbow Downtown Hostel, we leave our backpacks at the hostel and we started to walk around the city.

It cannot be denied that we were so tired but we still wanted to discover what we could, since we did not have long time in the capital.

Firstly, we were in the National Park of Nairobi where we had our first contact with animals.
For our surprise there is a park in the center of a big capital  and you could visit it by taxi(first madness).

We were  talking to each other about how was possible that the animals could live in the downtown of a city.

Maybe it is normal and this is part of our ignorance.

Secondly, we found a young guy next to the exit door of the National Park.
He looked like that  he was waiting tourists to do a free tour around the city.
Then, Juanra started convincing us that we should.
Lucia and me are the type of people that when Juanra is becoming intense  we decide to keep doing what he wants jajajaja friendship.

Thus, we started the free tour with Nima, the young guy who wants to show us the best places of Nairobi.

The experience was worth it, Juanra was right.

He was telling us stories about how to survive on the streets, visit a hidden market where we tried the famous samosas of Kenya and
he also told us different tricks to contact with Masais tribe.

Finally, our first day finished with a dinner at  the Carnivore Restaurant close to our hostel.

In this restaurant we tasted all type of animals meat. At the beginning we were a little bit scared due to the fact that none of us had tried this before.

It is time to sleep and charge energy for the following days.

Words that we learned in suajili language:

Hello!/ Good morning!  : Habari ya Siku

Thanks : asante

Please : tafadhali

My name is..: Ninaitwa


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