Four hundred and twenty chapters Marseille Village
Perhaps out of compensation or gratitude, the three hunting guides discussed for a while and decided to take Hong Tao and the others around the Maasai village during their half-day break. This project does not include
During the hunting trip, it was entirely a temporary addition by the hunting guide. It was probably Holland who came up with the idea. He also specifically reminded Hong Tao to bring the small stick with him.
The fat boss was determined not to go to this included tourist project. The reason was very simple. The environment in this hotel was comfortable and he had no worries about food and drink. He didn’t want to go to see some nomadic village in the bright sun. Neither did Boss Liu.
He was willing to go, but he was stolen by those baboons once, but he was very interested in them, and planned to stay in the hotel, entertaining the baboons, and resting at the same time.
In fact, Hong Tao is not willing to go. In his impression, the villages of African indigenous tribes are almost all adobe houses or thatched houses, and the sanitary conditions are very poor. If someone is too enthusiastic and leaves himself there for a meal or something,
Did you say whether you would eat or not?
Eat, our stomachs really can’t keep up with the resistance of our black brothers. We might get dysentery or something else, which would be troublesome. Don’t eat, it’s too disrespectful to others, especially this kind of indigenous people, if anything happens
If you annoy people and give you two whizzes with their long javelins, it's worse than getting dysentery.
However, Hong Tao couldn't refuse the hunting guides' proposal. This was an extra item they added for Hong Tao and the others to compensate for his mistakes. It was considered a gesture of goodwill. In addition, Hong Tao still had the small stick in his hand. If it really happened,
As Dutch Pee said, this thing is a token, so it’s really
He had to go for a trip, otherwise he would definitely have to annoy those Maasai people. Hong Tao had seen their ability to appear and disappear on the grassland. Unless they set off for South Africa immediately, Hong Tao would be afraid of going to bed alone in the middle of the night as long as he spent a day on this grassland.
A Maasai hunter carrying a javelin and wearing a red cloth appeared above him.
Among them, the one who wants to go to the Maasai village the most is Wei Han. He is in charge of photography. The more subjects he has, the happier he is. And Hong Tao really admires his professionalism. As long as he puts the camera on his shoulder, this guy will be like Kang Kang.
Just like shooting an air-to-ground missile, he immediately became fearless.
In addition to Hong Tao and Wei Han, Pan also joined the team that went to the Maasai camp. According to her, those Maasai people have always lived in their own circles, and it is difficult for outsiders to contact them. Even some Maasai people have their pastures occupied by protected areas.
They lost their herds and had to work as bodyguards or hunting guides for tourists, but ordinary people still couldn't enter their lives.
The small wooden stick in Hong Tao's hand is a key to close contact with the Maasai people. Without this wooden stick, Pan would never have followed Hong Tao and the others to the Maasai village. That would be asking for trouble, let alone that.
Are you allowed to enter the village? I'm afraid you'll be stopped before you even see the village.
Things are rare and valuable! Originally, Hong Tao thought that going to a Maasai village would be like traveling to various ethnic minority settlements in our country. Everyone would line up to wander around in other villages and towns, take photos, and buy some souvenirs with local ethnic customs.
Now when Pan said this, he realized that the small wooden stick in his hand had such a great effect, and that the Maasai village was not something he could just go to if he wanted to. Hong Tao, who was not very willing to go at first, immediately became a little bit interested.
Curious.
Curiosity killed the cat! When Holland, Hong Tao, Wei Han, and Pan drove an off-road vehicle from the camp all the way north for nearly an hour, they finally saw the Maasai village from a distance.
Hong Tao almost slapped himself!
The shape of the Maasai village is very unique. Looking from a distance on the high slope where the off-road vehicle is located, it looks like an Arabic numeral 8. There are more than 10 shacks in the larger circle. Hong Tao spent a long time looking for a way to describe the buildings.
In the end, he could only use the word shack as a vocabulary, and he still felt a little ashamed of this word.
There are no buildings in the smaller circle. It is empty. According to the living habits of the Maasai people that Holland introduced to Hong Tao before urinating, this should be the Maasai people's cattle pen.
This small village is located on a grassland. Perhaps because cattle have been passing by for a long time, two dirt roads with little grass have been trampled nearby. They extend outward for a hundred or ten meters, and then they are all yellow and green.
The grass is gone.
"This village is too small. Are you sure the Maasai man who gave me the stick lives here?" Hong Tao was very doubtful about Holland's judgment of urinating.
"In the entire crater, there is only one village for the Maasai people. Most of them live in the Serengeti and Masai Mara grasslands, just beyond the crater and further north." The Dutch were very sure of their judgment.
"There are people coming in front!" In fact, Hong Tao didn't need to say it, everyone could see it. In the originally empty grassland, 4 or 5 figures suddenly appeared. They were all tall and thin, just like Hong Tao and others in the hunting team.
The two Maasai people are very similar, but the difference is that they are not wearing the red cloth, but a black cloth.
"These are the young people in the village. They have not completed their coming-of-age ceremony, so they cannot wear red. You see, their faces are covered with white paint, which marks that they are 16 years old and can complete their coming-of-age ceremony."
." Holland seems to know a lot about the Maasai people.
"Take out your sticks and show them!" The young Maasai men walked to a place more than ten meters away from the off-road vehicle and stopped. However, their postures did not seem friendly and they did not look like they were here to greet guests.
, but like a highway robbery.
Following Holland's instructions, Hong Tao stretched out the small wooden stick less than 1 meter long out of the window and waved it at the Maasai youths blocking the car. The Maasai youths saw the stick in Hong Tao's hand.
There was an immediate reaction, and they gathered together and whispered to each other.
After saying a few words, a person walked to the car window, took the stick from Hong Tao, examined it carefully, then said a few words to Hong Tao, and then shouted a few words to his companions.
Two of the Maasai youths immediately turned around and ran back.
Hong Tao couldn't understand what they were talking about. It seemed that they knew this little wooden stick and sent someone back to deliver the message. More than ten minutes later, the small village suddenly boiled, and people from every small shack came to the rescue.
Several figures emerged from them, and then they formed a flow of people, walking towards Hong Tao and his car.
This was the first time for Hong Tao to have such close contact with so many African natives. Although his Dutch guide repeatedly reassured him that the Maasai people were safe and sound, Hong Tao still felt strange when he looked at the group of strange people in front of the car.
The urge to turn around and run.
There were probably more than 20 people in this group. The leader seemed a bit older, at least the braid on his head was already gray. There were three Maasai people wearing red cloth beside him. They were definitely not too young.
, but Hong Tao really couldn't tell how old they were, and couldn't even judge the range between their 30s and 40s.
In addition to the four Maasai people at the beginning who were draped in red cloth, most of the people behind them were also draped in various colors of floral cloth. One of them was dressed in the most fancy clothes. Not only was he wearing a floral sheet, but also his neck.
There are also many necklaces made of colorful beads.
At this time, Hong Tao and the others had already got out of the car. Holland pulled Hong Tao up to meet him, snatched the small wooden stick from Hong Tao's hand, and then communicated with the leading old man in the other person's language.
From the way he gestured, it seemed that the Dutchman didn't have a good command of the Maasai language.
In any case, the leading old Maasai man tricked Holland into not only agreeing to let Hong Tao and others enter his village, but also held a small welcome ceremony. The content of the ceremony was dancing. Following the old man
Behind them, more than a dozen Maasai people jumped from the off-road vehicle into the village.
Hong Tao didn't go to see the Maasai people's dance. He couldn't even understand a dance like ballet, let alone the simple movements and rich national charm. On the way into the village, he communicated with Holland and learned about it.
I asked all the questions that I didn’t understand clearly.
