Authentic Bush Adventure

Become a real Masaai Warrior!

                                                                                                                          Copyright-Bush Adventure-Brendan Bannon

Full Training (12 Days)

Our most comprehensive Training programme teaches you everything involved in the Introductory and Survivor packages, and then branches out to teach you about the most important aspect of our culture: our livestock. We believe that Enkai – our god – gave every cow on earth to us the Maasai. It is therefore a holy honour to treat them as well as we can; and in turn they become our symbols of wealth, material and the spiritual.

We’ll explain to you the importance of our livestock in our culture, we’ll teach you how to milk a cow and a goat, and then together we will herd them out to grazing, just as we to do. As we walk through the bush, you will learn to be alert to the bird-calls and signals warning of predators. We will show you how to judge which cows are the most healthy, which have hides covered in the markings and patterns we prize the most – and, so, which are the most valuable. You’ll learn how we protect them from disease and from predators (your fighting techniques might come in handy). We’ll teach you how we barter at the market to get the best price for a cow.

This all leads to what could be one of our most challenging activities for you – we’ll hike to a nearby homestead where your job will be to identify the strongest and healthiest cow, and use your bartering skills to purchase your chosen cow and then to bring it back safely to camp. Once you understand the value of cows to our culture, only now will you truly start to see what it means to be a Maasai.

To understand that, though, you will also be given a much broader insight into our culture, especially our jewellery and dancing, including our famous high-jump rituals, and their respective meanings. You’ll learn about how our mothers, wives and sisters live, and how that is different from our lives as Warriors. And we will spend time with a traditional religious healer, learning some of the rituals and traditions they use. At the finale of this, our Full Training, we will prepare a celebration party to show that you have ‘come of age’, decorating your skin and hair, and seeing if, now, you really can jump higher than the rest.

 

                                                                                                                                                   Copyright-Bush Adventure-Brendan Bannon

Rates 

2010 Prices for Maasai Warrior Training in US$

Note : Prices are subject to revision in case of significant exchange rates fluctuations between KES/US$

Number of guest	Introductory (3 nights)	Survivor (6 nights)	Full (11 nights)	Extra night on Introductory training	Extra night on survivor/full training
1 guest	3,600	6,000	9,900	1.000	750
2 guests	2,100	3,900	6,050	650	500
3-5 guests	1,650	3,000	4,950	500	400
6-8 guests	1,650	3,000	4,950	450	350
FDD	1.650	3,000	4,950 n/a	n/a

 *Authentic Bush Adventure

*Introductory Training (4 Days)

*Survivor Training (7 Days)