There is something about the big walk to the waterfall that quickens the pulse and excites the group no matter how many times we do it…

The maasai themselves rarely get there, so our expeditions have become eagerly awaited and oft talked about

Partly I think, a chance for the traditional forest maasai, the guys who are are guards and guides and who are now becomming our friends, to stock up on the seemingly wide ranging larder of medicinal plants

 

partly it mirrors the maasai’s own meat feasts and trecks into the forest during their journeys of initiation, (we always take a goat or sheep with us for fresh food),

and somehow stories of the previous year’s trips seem to be repeated afterwards and replayed to us on our return…

 

And it is one heck of a walk…..with one heck of a set of views at the end of it…