Here Koilel, the webmaster, and Tumpes eat chicken and vegetable soup with ugali.  Ugali is a sort of dough like food made from the meal of maize and water.  It tastes wonderful when combined with Joyce Masasi's spectacular chicken soup.  Traditionally, the Maasai are not farmers.  Their diet once centered around the meat and milk their livestock could provide.  However, as times have changed, the foreign concept of individual property rights has imposed changes to the amount of grazing land individual Maasai can use for their livestock.  The Maasai can't keep as much livestock as they once could, and so they have now adopted farming to supplement their diets.  Thus, Maasai have borrowed recipes such as that for ugali from the traditional farming peoples of Kenya.

Here Koilel and the webmaster stand in front of a traditional Maasai manyatta near Olepolos.

Here we stand with the owner of the Olepolos manyatta and one of her neighbours.

The webmaster never guessed one could stumble upon a country club out here... A good example of the striking juxtaposition of traditional Kenya and wealthy westernized Kenya so often seen in various forms throughout the country.

Here Koilel's wife, Mary, stands with her small son in the town of Kiserian.  The town is primarily a business center.  Most of the Maasai you find here dwell outside of the town, but come to town during the day for business purposes.  Behind Mary, you see an arrow pointing to the door of the Enkishon Nataana office.

Beadwork is one way in which Maasai women can earn money from locals and tourists.  On the left is an incredible Maasai woman by the name of Mary, and she is pictured here with her sister.  Mary is a widow, and uses the income from her beadwork to send her daughter to secondary school.

Here the webmaster stands with Joseph, a preacher, who is the brother of Tumpes Masasi. They stand outside the manyatta of Tumpes's mother.  Tumpes' mother lives within the same settlement as does Tumpes.  It is common for Maasai to live very near the homes of their parents, siblings, or other relatives.