IMPRESSIONS FROM THE MAASAI

The Masai live in Tanzania and Kenya. They occupy big dry areas of the East African rift valley. Their life style is still dominated by the past, living almost the same as their ancestors lived some hundred years ago.

Their routine from morning to sunset and from season to season, don’t change and women being the most active in most activities – from building a house, collecting firewood, taking care of the children, cooking for the whole family to milking the cows. 

Maasai women at dusk, waiting for their heads of cows coming from grazing

Milking usually is done by women

Cow skinning as a Moran looks on

A moran gets informed of the world's news

Inside the Maasai round house

A boys sleeps on a cow's skin

A Maasai boy on a chilly morning

A young Maasai wife

Young wives are not allowed to loiter around, they are kept inside to avoid wishful Morans