We visited the Massai & Mto Wa Mbu Village as part of a day of cultural tourism before our trip to the Serengeti in Tanzania. The village was small and the inhabitants clearly very poor. Despite the poverty, the children of Mto Wa Mbu were very happy, posing for all our photos and playing with balls or pieces of rubbish. The elders sat outside their small wooden or mud huts sifting rice or millet, brewing banana beer or calving wooden statues. Most couldn’t speak English but our guide translated what they were saying. There were many half built brick homes in the village. This is because many of the families in Mto Wa Mbu can only afford a few bricks a month, so build their new homes over 20 years. We were lucky enough to find the hut of an old lady in Mto Wa Mbu brewing illegal spirits ‘witches tonic’. She was scared the authorities might catch on so we had to wait in her mud hut home while she fetched it in secret. Fortunately we didn’t turn blind! Great experience.
Photos of Massai & Mto Wa Mbu Village
