The Masai Mara has previously been named the seventh new wonder of the world.
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The Masai call this peak we're on, Africa's second-highest, "Erukenya" -- mountain of clouds.
To help their people cope, a group of educated young Masai are setting up informal classes under thorn bushes.
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By Masai standards, Mr Kinyago's is a studious family: only 35% of the children of Kenyan pastoralists attend classes.
ECONOMIST: Why the Masai send their slower children to school
That fourth-place finish came at last month's Great Edinburgh International, a race won by another 19-year-old sensation, Kenya's Linet Masai.
Odds are, you'll want to see Masai Mara from the ground as well to get up close with Africa's intriguing wildlife.
Barely one Masai in ten can read, which leaves the tribe less than ideally placed to take advantage of the information age.
ECONOMIST: Why the Masai send their slower children to school
Their squabbling is fearsome, and the shrieks ear-splitting - it's the nearest thing Australia can offer to experiencing a lion kill on the Masai Mara.
Last year, Ethiopian athlete Haile Gebrselassie won the men's race for a fifth time, while the women's race was won by Kenyan Linet Masai.
One young woman who has benefited from this program is a woman named Evelyn Nkadori, from the Masai people of the grasslands of Kenya.
The biggest hits of my brief visit to a Masai village were the Los Angeles postcards and colored pencils bought before boarding the plane at LAX.
The sheer, vast expanse of what the Masai Mara has to offer is impossible to see in one day, or even repeated safaris across the landscape.
Masai warriors puncture and stretch their ear lobes to make all-flesh ear-rings, and Masai brides knock out some of their front teeth to add to their allure.
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Ismail Ibrahim in the state-owned Al-Ahram al-Masai satirises the opposition which is calling for the new constitution to be abolished after the majority of voters approved it.
Wildebeest migrate from Tanzania to the Masai Mara from July to September. iReporter Louisa Wong recommends going in July to see the wildebeest to avoid crowds of other tourists.
Although this is still a functioning village, some young Masai are beginning to leave the countryside for Nairobi, and I was struck by the number of cell phones among inhabitants.
Most Masai live much as they have for centuries.
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Ten of the Virgin Atlantic's frequent fliers recently worked with the airline, Sarova Hotels and charity Water for All to help rebuild a school in the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya.
Sadly, proud traditions fill no stomachs, and since their illiterate forebears signed away 90% of their land to the British, the Masai now have too little pasture to sustain a swollen population.
ECONOMIST: Why the Masai send their slower children to school
Masai Ujiri, the Nuggets executive vice president who famously said on the night of the trade, "We got killed, " called the deal a win-win Wednesday and said there were no residual hard feelings.
Meanwhile, Kenenisa Bekele - Olympic champion in the 5, 000m and 10, 000m - won the 5, 000m event in a time of 12 minutes 50.18 seconds ahead of Moses Kipsiro of Uganda and Kenyan Moses Masai.
Except that in this case the wildebeest, zebra and giraffe are replaced by people out for an afternoon stroll and the pale hues of the Masai Mara by the budding luxury condos of Chelsea.
Swathes of what should be one of the best tourist roads in the country, leading to the Masai Mara reserve, one of Africa's finest game-viewing sites, are barely better than a rock-strewn, muddily rutted farm track that was once smooth tarmac.
The Aberdares are also almost completely overlooked by most tourists, who usually head to the southern parks of the Masai Mara and Amboseli or the luxury camps of the nearby Laikipia plateau, including the Lewa Safari Camp and Borana Ranch and Safari Lodge.
Hotels that made the cut ranged from the one-suite Howie's HomeStay in Thailand to the massive and elegant 745-room Mulia Resort in Bali, and included a converted 17th-century monastery on a cliff as well as a safari camp next to Masai land.
L.T. member named Britnee Brown, who has been with the company for a little more than a year, took a call that was a record five hours, twenty-five minutes, and thirty-one seconds long, from a woman on the East Coast interested in Masai Barefoot Technology shoes, which purport to mimic supposedly salubrious barefoot-on-the-beach walking with curved rubber platforms.
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