Hello,
We did not head out so early as people often do because we wanted to visit a Maasi village. That required having a packed lunch provided and coming back in the afternoon. The lunch had a boiled egg, small sandwich of tomato and some type of spread, half an orange, half a passion fruit, half a papaya, lettuce leaf, a juice box, and a wafer type cookie.
I said, “I will need to use the toilet sometime during the day.” I felt that I should mention that because once in the game park you are not allowed to get out of a vehicle.
“Don’t worry about that,” our driver assured me, “I will take care of that.” Mid morning he took us to a resort/hotel in the park and then in the early afternoon we ate lunch at the top of a hill. There was a pit toilet at the bottom of the hill. So all needs were covered.
We went to the Maasi village just after our first potty break. The village was totally surrounded by a fence created from brambles from some thorny plant that they managed to mesh together. Their gate was made out of the same locally available material.
We were greeted and invited to take as many pictures as we would like. After taking our pictures with them the camera battery gave out. Oh crumb! No more pictures and we could have taken some inside the house, but before we got there they had a prayer welcome that we were encouraged to join with their word for amen. We all squatted in a circle and they prayed in Kswahili.
When that was finished we had a demonstration of how they start a fire without a match. They used a board, a stick, and dried elephant dung. It was all quite efficient and a flame was visible in about two minutes.
Paula
A link to Maasi photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/psbradway/MaasiVillage##
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