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No metter if you find yoursel in the towns, villages or along the roads, you'll meet great number of the locals offering wooden souveniers. It seems like one of the most lucrative business here. There exist huge manufacture in the outskirts of Mombasa and most of the souveniers coming out from it. Although each of the piece is hand-made, most of these products look alike and you might have impression of copies.
The minor number of souveniers, coloured in a different way and without plastered lacquer all over, coming from home manufactures and authentic Maasai villages, are coloured in predominant red colour and look less sophisicated. Leave a Comment
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Aproximatelly half of the population doesn't work and probably will never get a job but yet, everybody sell and buy something. Wherever you go around there are number of shops or stands along the roads offering virtualy everything. I was thought it is exclusevely Arabian habbit but they are just a babies comparing to Kenyans. Leave a Comment
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I was in particularly fascinated with Maasais. Besides visiting a couple of their villages, I get to known in person more than dozens of Maasais meeting them around. They are very simple characters, sincere and honest, and devoted to their friends.
Maasais are taller than average Kenyans and very proud people. They never begging around, like most of the other tribes, instead they sell beautiful hand made souveniers. The members of the same tribe live in the piece and harmony. It is stricktly definited what is men's and what is women's work inside of the community. Women place is in the home, taking care of the haus, children, coocking and she almost never live the village. Men is hunter, in the first place, than shepherd and his job is to provide food and money. I have noticed a very strong solidarity among those who live in the same community. Leave a Comment
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The very first thing I have noticed is the diversity of colours. Morover, I was in particularly impressed by the natural talent this women have in matching the colours together. Look at this pictures and see for yourself.
Most of the women wear long dresses without any stich on it. They just wrap it around their body. Must be very practicle to wear and simple to put it on.
And another, if not the most important fact, each tribe has it own dresscode, in particularly the colours. Leave a Comment
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No metter of hard and poor living conditions, Kenyans are very joyfull and friendly people. Can't tell you nothing about the rich people here because, although they exist, I haven't seen the single one. Most of the locals, I get acquainted to, belong to the ordinary people who are struggling to survive. And yet, all of them were optimistic, joyful and very friendly. If any of problem occur to them, they just say with wide smile on the face, "hakuna matata", what means no problem at all.
After visiting Kenya I've learned something, have to appreciate my living conditions much more than I did before. Leave a Comment
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There are many road-stands with ready made garments but most of them offers second hand cloths. It is very popular in Kenya because great majority of the population cannot afford themselves to buy a new cloths. Besides, new cloths in a specialized shops is very expensive, too expensive for average sallary. Leave a Comment
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Great majority of Kenyans live in a very poor living conditions, in particularly those who live in the countryside. Their huts are very simple constructions, one or two rooms made of mud and reed with one entrance and no windows. The rooftop is usually covered by the palm leafs or grass mixed by mud. Leave a Comment
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The construction of the hut is very simple and most of them have one room only. The hut of Akamba people is divided by poles in two chambers, one where parents sleep and the other for children. As far as I saw, only the Maasai hut consists of more rroms and small kitchen.
Each tribe (people) make their characteristic and recognizable type of the hut. Leave a Comment
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Unemployment is the huge problem of Kenya and, as I was told, approximately 50% of the population do not work. The perspectives to find a job are very poor, especially in the northern part of the country. Leave a Comment
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