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Maasai Tanzania
CULTURAL TOUR
ABOUT TANZANIA CULTURE
Tanzania has much more to offer than Serengeti Safaris. You can enjoy while visiting culture too in Tanzania with 120 tribes with different mother local languages but speak one language “Swahili” Official Language in Tanzania.
The Maasai originally from Kenya but also partly- based out of Northern parts of Tanzania are an African ethnic group that’s existed for centuries and has a population of nearly 3 million.
When you’re on a Safari , visiting a Maasai Village will be interesting too in you intermarry and were here to tell you why you should miss it.
MAASAI IN TANZANIA.
They are located in the Northern Parts of Tanzania and also conservation Area of Ngorongoro and the entire village is Nomadic moving around as they seek valuable water sources. As you research the Maasai tribes, before your trips you’ll notice many mentions of it being a “Tourist trap” and whether it’s really worth visiting a maasai village.
The truth is that even you can obviously tell that the villages have been set for tourist. Evident from the moment you pay the entrance fee, yull quick start to learn about their unique culture, traditions and lifestyle. Now days the Maasai in Tanzania mainly subside from these fees. So you will be helping a village to survive while also experiencing and learning about something new and foreign.
Do you Know!
-Maasai are Polygamous with men in tribes having several wives and needing to provide for all of them.
-Roles of the men is to look for food, take care of the animals, cows, goats, sheep, and provide protection while women take care of the children, food, the Maasai market even build houses.
-The houses they live in are tiny hits with 2 hard beds made of skin of animals one for the woman (and the husband when he’s visiting ) and another for the kids.
-Education is part of their lifestyle everyday as well. There is a little preschool/ hut where children spend their days but elders and teenagers actually attend school one miles away ans requires a long walk to reach.
-The maasai remove 2 of their canine teeth in order to leave a space to be feed in case they get sick and are unable to open their jaws.
-Their diet is mainly composed of eating meat, milk and blood.
