Maasai: The lion killers
That was one of the first things that we heard when we headed out to the bush in Kenya. That we would be hanging out with the Maasai tribe for two weeks and the rite of passage that they have for their young men when they turn seventeen is that they go out, find a lion and then kill it with only a spear and it’s got to be an older one as well not a little young one.
Jamming all our stuff in the back of a pickup and then packing ourselves into a matatu (aka a small bus) we headed out from Kijabe. After riding along the bumpy rut filled roads, getting pulled over by the...