While at Sinya Camp, we paid a visit to a Maasai village that probably not very many outsiders have ever seen. It is where the wife of one of our Maasai tribesman escorts lives. Along the road you sometimes see what is obviously a tourist Maasai village, where for a fee, you can take a tour of the village. This was not that.

When we got to the village, we were greeted by the women and children of the village singing a greeting for us. The Maasai live in huts called bomas. They are made of wood, straw and coated with a mixture of cow dung and mud. At night, their cattle are kept in corrals made of thorny bushes to protect them from predators.