Masai Madness!
Yesterday a group of us visited a remote Masai village - we had an amazing day!
We arrived near some Masai bomas and began to walk towards a group of Masia men in the distance who were standing under a tree. I wasn't really sure what we were going to see, maybe some dancing or a medicine man? I would never have imagined what actually happened!
We arrived at the group to find two of the Masai men holding down a goat and another sharpening a huge blade - you've guessed it - they were about to slaughter the goat and they'd brought along
the naive mzungus to watch! It was horrific / amazing - they killed the goat (with us all standing round gasping with shock!) and then proceeded to skin and carve it. Meanwhile we all stood around taking millions of photos (definitely some for the album!). Once it had been skinned they started to remove the organs - they popped out one of the kidneys and a Masai man ate it - the next one they offered to our friend who had to eat it to be polite! The raw kidney eating was swiftly followed by drinking the warm, congealed blood that had been sitting around in the sun for 20mins! Mmmm tasty!
After this traumatic start to the day things proceeded in a more expected way. We visited a Masai village and saw women and girls dancing and singing. We were shown round their tiny, round mud houses which were so dark you could hardly see. One of the Masai women took a liking to me and decided to hold my hand for most of the trip which was slightly odd.
Just when we thought the day was over we were taken back to the slaughter site of the goat to have 'a bit of a bbq!' Our guide was most disappointed (I was relieved) that the head had already been eaten! There was thankfully just a few organs (we avoided the lungs!) and legs left. We all ate a bit and I've got to admit that it was more normal tasting than we'd expected (considering it had been smoked for a couple of hours over smoldering embers rather than properly cooked).
Our day ended with a visit to the medicine man who can cure almost anything by boiling twigs in water and then drinking the mixture - reliable I'm sure!
All in all a fantastic day!
We arrived near some Masai bomas and began to walk towards a group of Masia men in the distance who were standing under a tree. I wasn't really sure what we were going to see, maybe some dancing or a medicine man? I would never have imagined what actually happened!
We arrived at the group to find two of the Masai men holding down a goat and another sharpening a huge blade - you've guessed it - they were about to slaughter the goat and they'd brought along
the naive mzungus to watch! It was horrific / amazing - they killed the goat (with us all standing round gasping with shock!) and then proceeded to skin and carve it. Meanwhile we all stood around taking millions of photos (definitely some for the album!). Once it had been skinned they started to remove the organs - they popped out one of the kidneys and a Masai man ate it - the next one they offered to our friend who had to eat it to be polite! The raw kidney eating was swiftly followed by drinking the warm, congealed blood that had been sitting around in the sun for 20mins! Mmmm tasty!After this traumatic start to the day things proceeded in a more expected way. We visited a Masai village and saw women and girls dancing and singing. We were shown round their tiny, round mud houses which were so dark you could hardly see. One of the Masai women took a liking to me and decided to hold my hand for most of the trip which was slightly odd.
Just when we thought the day was over we were taken back to the slaughter site of the goat to have 'a bit of a bbq!' Our guide was most disappointed (I was relieved) that the head had already been eaten! There was thankfully just a few organs (we avoided the lungs!) and legs left. We all ate a bit and I've got to admit that it was more normal tasting than we'd expected (considering it had been smoked for a couple of hours over smoldering embers rather than properly cooked).
Our day ended with a visit to the medicine man who can cure almost anything by boiling twigs in water and then drinking the mixture - reliable I'm sure!
All in all a fantastic day!
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