Meeting the Maasai

Meeting the Maasai
Sunset on the Serengeti plain after a long fascinating day.

Today felt like the longest day of our trip so far, even more exhausting than the 24 hour travel day from Virginia to Nairobi. So I'll be kind of brief with the words here, but will include many photos.

The guard for a bank in Narok where Megan used the ATM.
This man is holding his hand down as a gesture to our driver to ask for a ride (like a thumb up for hitchhiking in the USA). After our driver explained this, Megan asked him to pick up the next Maasai hitchhiker we see. That may happen Monday when we leave the Masai Mara.
Our guide explained that this woman is not Maasai because Maasai people only carry things on their backs, whereas many other tribes carry things on their heads. He added "so she lives in a house with four corners, but the Maasai people live in round houses."

We checked in, had lunch, and then headed out for our first wildlife safari. Our guide Willie knows the area well, and in just two hours he took us to places where we had close views of elephants, giraffes, lions, warthogs, Thomson's gazelles, mongooses, hippos, African buffalos, crocodiles, hyenas, and many birds.