Hands up School Trips 5 Days Oldarpoi Nashulai Maasai Conservancy.
A group of 25 Students and their teachers arrived to Oldarpoi Mara Camp.
for a trip to learn our culture and explore our beautiful Sceneries of our greater ecosystem in Nashulai Maasai Conservancy.
for a trip to learn our culture and explore our beautiful Sceneries of our greater ecosystem in Nashulai Maasai Conservancy.
The Iceberg started by welcoming songs from Maasai warriors.
welcoming all our guests to our ecotourism Oldarpoi Mara Camp and clients can join the warriors welcoming songs
as our cultural hospitality in our culture in Maasai community.
welcoming all our guests to our ecotourism Oldarpoi Mara Camp and clients can join the warriors welcoming songs
as our cultural hospitality in our culture in Maasai community.
Day 1. 7/04/2018
Hiking in Ngama Hills 2200 meters above sea level, mission to learning flora and fauna with Maasai warriors who are more
knowledgeable in ethnoveterinary knowledge of the Maasai people.
knowledgeable in ethnoveterinary knowledge of the Maasai people.
Reaching the peak of the Hills, we had a Maasai Olympics games which we usually term it
“Maasai Warriors Training in Nashulai Maasai Conservancy”
whereby we trained them the techniques of throwing Maasai Clubs or Rungus;
“Maasai Warriors Training in Nashulai Maasai Conservancy”
whereby we trained them the techniques of throwing Maasai Clubs or Rungus;
For instance Different ways of throwing short distances and long distances.
We show them on how to hold and throw real Maasai spears shown by Maasai Warriors.
inally how to use Maasai Arrows and Bows to aim a target when shooting the Arrows..
inally how to use Maasai Arrows and Bows to aim a target when shooting the Arrows..
While explaining Ceremonial plants like Leleshwa or wild Camphor plant. Many questions arise on how the Maasai uses
the above plant when Warriors living in the wilderness.
the above plant when Warriors living in the wilderness.
Throwing the Clubs or Rungus in Maasai Olympics games is decades practice of young teenagers and Warriors in the field
and it need a lot of practices, so everyone needed to pay a lots of attention for the lessons.
and it need a lot of practices, so everyone needed to pay a lots of attention for the lessons.
Day 2 Community Projects in the community school
After dinner, we always as a model in our campfire, Maasai Warriors set a side storytelling sessions to clients in the camp.
We tell Maasai culture stories, Maasai Origin stories and stories of Wildlife in our Maasai Mara ecosystem.
We also exchange cultures across different nationalities.
Our first story told by the Maasai Elder was “Rite of Passage” how a young teen in Maasai gradually change from childhood to adulthood.
We tell Maasai culture stories, Maasai Origin stories and stories of Wildlife in our Maasai Mara ecosystem.
We also exchange cultures across different nationalities.
Our first story told by the Maasai Elder was “Rite of Passage” how a young teen in Maasai gradually change from childhood to adulthood.
During morning hours we had a school visitation to interact with school children and our clients join community work by painting
and clearing the field by slashing.
playing with school children and other volunteering trained in classes.
and clearing the field by slashing.
playing with school children and other volunteering trained in classes.
Day 3 Nature Walk to track animals in Nashulai Maasai Conservancy
We also training warriors on how to track animals in the field, We did our introduction on how to track by keenly following the animals tracks.
We selected two different groups to compete on identifying animals tracks and spotting animals in the distance and the end of our tracking
walk with the help our trainers which group has spotted and tracked many animals.
We selected two different groups to compete on identifying animals tracks and spotting animals in the distance and the end of our tracking
walk with the help our trainers which group has spotted and tracked many animals.
Amazing news we got the King of the Jungle foot tracks the Male Lion, The largest land Mammal the Elephants
and many plains animals like Zebras and Giraffes.
and many plains animals like Zebras and Giraffes.
Day 4 Safari with Picnic lunches for long Day Game spotting in Maasai Mara National Reserve.
We all as Maasai warriors passionate to spot all the Big Five animals in the world famous Maasai Mara national reserve.
After a successful warriors training, evening storytelling and Wildlife animals tracking sessions.
Now another big day to start a safari upto Mara River,
endangered species of Black Rhino near the adjacent Main gate Sekenani.
After a successful warriors training, evening storytelling and Wildlife animals tracking sessions.
Now another big day to start a safari upto Mara River,
where the spectacle natural phenomena of Wildebeests migration crossing annually happened.
The luckiest day we had after we spot the big cats like Lions, Cheetahs and even be able to spot the endangered species of Black Rhino near the adjacent Main gate Sekenani.