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Maasai Eco Tour is a tour in the Magical Kenya Signature Experience Collection – curated, unique, authentic and exceptional once-in-a-lifetime Kenyan travel experiences accredited and recommended by the Kenya Tourist Board (KTB) This One Horizon 1-day tour enables you to connect with nature and engage with a local Maasai community as they teach you about matters of conservation and the preservation of their precious lands where they have lived a semi-nomadic life for centuries. You will see how the Maasai are managing the grazing of their herds of cattle, embracing biogas systems for fuel to enable them to preserve precious forests, and learn how they use local plants and herbs for medicinal remedies. It is one of One Horizon’s most authentic and in-depth experiences of an indigenous community who have generations of environmental lessons to impart.

The volunteer(s) will have an exciting firsthand cultural experience of living a basic African lifestyle characterized by living in and with the natural environment and cultural activities that will teach him/her new ways of going about daily life without the intricacies of the modern world. Skills and insights you will learn include farming practices, local cultural activities like singing and basketry as well as traditional leadership structures while enjoying local African foods. The volunteer(s) will also be able to understand the development process as he/she will be interacting with both a traditional setting coupled with elements of a developing society, and will see how the two processes interact with each other.