Among the Maasai People

Thursday morning we went to visit a Maasai village. The visit was very interesting. It is strange to see people who still live more or less as their ancestors did hundreds or thousands of years ago. Their villages have no electricity, no running water, no air conditioning -- in short, none of the modern conveniences we now assume are vital for life. Instead, they live in houses made of straw and branches, sealed with cow dung.

Most of us could never live that way, but perhaps neither could they live as we do. (I asked if many of the young people leave for Nairobi or other big cities. They claimed that very few leave...)