Saturday, 16 June 2012
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
cities to travel to: The life of a Maasai woman is precious like gemsto...
cities to travel to: The life of a Maasai woman is precious like gemsto...: Many women in Africa are taken through hardship and sheer trouble that is as a result of poverty and cultural oppression. Very few Maasai w...
The life of a Maasai woman is precious like gemstone!
Many women in Africa are taken through hardship and sheer trouble that is as a result of poverty and cultural oppression. Very few Maasai women in Kenya get a chance to enrol in schools to the tertiary levels. As a matter of fact despite the set up of the free education approximately 40 percent of Maasai women have gone to school to achieve their education right. From these student percentages only five percentages have the chance to go up to the secondary level.
It is known that the Maasai women are initiated at the age of 11 or 13 then later on they are married off to a man that has been chosen by their own fathers in exchange of heads of cattle. This comes with a lot of restrictions such as no divorce or getting out of marriage despite any brutal treatment. Also they are never allowed to remarry even if in case the husband that was given to her (one who is old) dies of while she is still at her tender age. As a matter of fact, they are mostly inherited by the brothers of the deceased.
In this community there is no much care on the mother’s health, they are supposed to give birth to many children or irrespective of the family ability to take care of them. These are the same women who wake up early every morning to milk the cows and last the whole day in the hot sun in search of water to wash the family’s clothes. Also, firewood is picked by the women in order to prepare food for the entire family and also to be used to warm the house. In a nut shell these women will live a life of less comfort especially getting married to a man that was selected by their fathers.
This is why their life expectancy is an average of 45 years.
The Maasai community are the most dignified and restored in Kenya and their cultural practises attract a wide range of visitors from the entire world. They have been in a position to safeguard their traditional values despite the pressures of the world in relation to modernity. They value their nomadic lifestyles, they houses (their manyattas) and traditional foods. However, a lot of changes are embraced by this community in relation to educating their girl child and also impact knowledge to their boys.
However much the Maasai women seem forgotten in the society, they still remain the gemstone of Kenya and they play a very big role in putting together the fabric of the Maasai community.
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Thursday, 31 May 2012
All about the cultural tours in Tanzania
All about the cultural tours in Tanzania
Tanzania is a tourist attraction site which magnified in a number of ways. This includes the presence of nice landscapes that are conformed by mountains, lakes, valleys, waterfalls and hills. However, it is also known for its exceptional cultural tours that revolve around developmental projects that are within the villages in Tanzania.
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Visitors and tourists get a chance to explore the traditional lifestyles of the people of Tanzania back in the rural areas and also participate in different developmental projects in the villages. These cultural tours present different kinds of explorations which include
- Visiting the local herbalists,
- Medicine men,
- Cheese factories,
- Safaris,
- Mountain climbing,
- Trekking,
- Camping,
- Learning about the different tribes and
- Languages spoken and
Also exploring the dominant culture of the Masai community. This is exciting!
These tours are transparent and well managed by trustworthy people who ensure that in case of any developmental contributions, a fixed percentage is taken directly to the villages. This help largely the villagers in their domestic projects like building of community cattle dips, schools, medical facilities amid many other pressing needs of the entire member community.
In other cases, gifts and candid offers are accepted which also may include donations that is purposeful for the various projects. As a tourist or a visitor, you are well assured exactly where the money is taken as you will also be involved in the accounting of the same, if need be. All these is in the name of discouraging fraudsters who may be out there to extort money from good people and later on destroy the wonderful culture of the people of Tanzania.
There are a number of places that you can tour in Taznania and enjoy your cultural tour to the maximum. For instance:
- Longido,
- Engaruka,
- Mto wa Mbu,
- Mulala,
- Likiding’a, Babati,
- Usambara,
- Mamaba and
- Marangu,
- Pare Mountains to the south and to the North.
Cultural tours in Tanzania are willfully for the sake of enhancing social interactions and majorly global interactions among people of different culture. It is a paramount goal for the people of Tanzania to mix freely with visitors and for sure you will be amazed on just how the people here are humble and more than welcoming.
They drink and eat together with visitors like brothers and sisters. At one point you will not wish to leave Tanzania. What are you waiting for? Take this time and experience one of the most welcoming cultural tours in Tanzania, one of a kind!
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
cities to travel to: All about waterfalls in Rwanda
cities to travel to: All about waterfalls in Rwanda: Water falls in Rwanda are part of the beautiful sceneries that form a great ground for tourism and safaris . Many visitors travelling from...
All about waterfalls in Rwanda
Water falls in Rwanda are part of the beautiful sceneries that form a great ground for tourism and safaris. Many visitors travelling from across the globe come to witness, view and take photographs and video footage of the falls and rapids that are available in some parts of Kigali and its environs.
During the early arrivals by the Europeans in Rwanda in the year 1894, many Germans came by the water falls and moved across to Tanzania. By this time Rwanda had been considered part of the German East Africa.
There are many major waterfalls in Rwanda that are mainly split into a number of rapids and others flowing through River Kagera. On the other hand, there are others that are less known by visitors and are located elsewhere. For instance, Rasumo falls. This stands among other numerous ones like, Amazi Isumo and Chutes Rasumo.
The Rasumo falls is the main water falls that is found on the Kagera River right on the border of Rwanda and Tanzania. This is a fall that carries with it a lot of history of the Rwanda people in regards to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. It is at this water fall that many people running away from the hard hit areas passed through as dead bodies were clogged under the bridge.
Amazi Isumo is a lovely water fall that is located in one of the coolest places in Rwanda. They call it lonely planet. However, it is small and very powerful but very isolated.
Chutes Rasumo is like many others on Lake Kagera are small water falls that many people would like to call it a rapid fall. However, it is ecstatic and extends a romantic feeling.
Most of the places where these water falls are located are conserved and you will find a number of lodges and hotels that will serve you bed and breakfast accommodation services. This is amid other travel agencies that work on the whole process of tours and excursions.
There are a number of activities that are more than exciting as they are delightful. For instance, the most common one is mountain climbing and trekking which is highly booked especially on the mountains where there is the viewing of the gorillas. It is also good to camp in one or two of the places as there are camping services that suites family and friends tours.
Apart from these activities, it is just lovely to stand and watch the falls as the waters hit the bottom with a consistent thunder that at some point you can hardly hear one another.
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