Maasai Encounter in Tanzania

The following photos were all taken on the Maasai trip in November 2005
(all photos © Piers Warren 2005)


Sheilagh (Mama Africa) greets her 'public'
at Mzee Pello's Boma


Andrew makes a friend...


Kat alarms the locals


Mzee Pello is bemused but proud

James Laizer - camp manager

Cayce all kitted up

Sally tries a kidnap...


milking straight into a calabash

 
Sheilagh has a go at ploughing


much to the amusement of all present!


a cow is shot in the neck with an arrow to collect blood

the blood is collected in a calabash


which a young boy drinks straight away


Isaya and his daughter Sarah

 
Mzee Elias talks us through his potions in his hospital


Elias shows us some of his patients

Amazing singing in the church - everyone has
tears in their eyes...

Lighting a fire by rubbing sticks in the bat/baboon cave

Success!


Cayce at the wedding ceremony - the hut with writing on is where the wife is kept hidden


The morani (young warriors) enter


and start singing and jumping


Susan amazes a maasai girl by playing back
the singing she has just recorded

Andrew hides in the classroom

Jonathan prepares to film the goat's last moments
at the goat feast

Smothering lasts a few minutes...


then the skinning is expertly started


and the goat is soon in pieces

the blood is eagerly shared round - still warm

Meanwhile Kat goes shopping crazy!

back at the feast the liver is carved

and the morani chew on the bones


Edward - head of the morani - amazing face


One way of stretching the lobe!

the dancing continues


one warrior has a fit and is carried away to be calmed


Amazing headdresses

Edward and the other warriors keep singing

Kat blends in with the locals


Buffaloes in Arusha National Park


That spider and her mate...

huge flocks of flamingoes

lots of giraffe

Andrew tries to wash his shirt in the waterfall!

The camel trek - Sheilagh wins the prize for endurance


Cayce films Jonathan and Sally investigating
a huge termit mound


The group on the last day at Mzee Pello's Boma