3-Day Nairobi Cultural Tour with Maasai and Community Visits

• Meet your tour guide, then drive to a developing area west of Nairobi to visit the Women's Empowerment Centre. Spend time with Mary as you learn about her vision for the centre, and enjoy the opportunity to meet some of the proud and self-sufficient women involved in this inspirational program.

Dinner and overnight stay at hotel/lodge.

• Visit grandmother-headed households in Kenya, where grandmothers care for their grandchildren and other generations of their families in difficult economic circumstances.
• Explore a pig farm owned by one grandmother and hear her proudly explain pig husbandry and how her bio-gas system powers her home. This is another project supported by One Horizon, and the initiative aims to improve the livelihoods of grandmothers by economically empowering them through small-scale farming.
• Sit down with the grandmothers as they cook traditional meals for their families and narrate their wonderful life stories.

Dinner and overnight stay at hotel/lodge.

• Spend an amazing day with the warriors and women of a traditional Maasai village.
• Start the day with a song and welcome dance, where the wife of a village elder will offer to dress you in traditional Maasai shuka cloth or 'African blanket'.
• Venture into the bush with her son, who will explain what it is like to be a young warrior in Maasai society. Join other men training for their rite of passage as they explain how they will go into the hills to complete qualifying tasks before reaching the circumcision ceremony.
• Take part in the challenge and see how to throw a spear and climb an acacia tree at lightning speed.
• Sit with the villagers and hear stories of their fascinating culture while the women teach you how to make traditional decorative beaded jewellery.