Sunday, March 11, 2007

Hiking in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area




Up until now we have been doing the standard tourist circuit. Until we started a 3 day hike in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which is a part of the Great Rift Valley. The first stop for the night was at Empaki Crater. There we met a Maasai couple who stopped for a chat.











They Maasai couple started pointing to the hairy arms of D, one of the members of our group. His wife said, "that's nothing wait until you see this" and she lifted up D's t-shirt, exposing his chest. None of us were ready for the young Maasai woman to run away in real fear and then spit in order to rid herself of the bad omen.



Here she is looking very unsure of all of us being in the company of such a hairy person.


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