My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

 Maasai Mara & Maasai Village visit In the evening we were taken to the local village of the Maasai Tribes. We were welcomed with a dance and then taken into the village.   One person  demonstrated on how they create fire naturally. Inside  the village  we were taken into individual homes which are constructed using clay and cow dung like our Indian village huts.  The one I went to had 3 bedrooms  - enough space to hold 2 people lying down and the center hall is also the kitchen which  provides the heat.  There is alone solar lamp to light up dimly the interior  Of course we were invited to the village and were asked to help them out by buying souvenir  which we all promptly did. From Wikipedia about the tribes The Maasai Swahili: Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are among the best-known local populations internationally due to their residence near the many game parks of the African Great Lakes and their

Africa The land of Big Five -  Coming  here I was remembering my father  taking all of us for the movie African Safari when we were young.  It was  as if I was actually in the movie experiencing every thing in real time today. Happy that both myself and Ramani could make this trip.  Seeing the wild animals in their natural habitat that too so close that you can feel their very presence as the person sitting next to you is totally out of the world experience. Here are my close encounters with Elephants, Hyena, Zebra, giraffe, wild Buffalo, quails  all seen in the vici nity of our hotel LA Maison Royale