Our deliberate focus on providing Safari programs in Maasailand is influenced by indigenous knowledge of our landscapes and people, culture, wildlife, and the tourism sector; as well as inextinguishable desire to give our clients unadulterated cultural and wildlife experience.

Our adventure began 32 years ago, in 1990; Authentic from the start. Maasai Prides Land Adventures takes you every corner of Maasailand in Kenya and Tanzania, all-year-round. We love to take you into new places in our unadulterated, authentic style. As we celebrate our 25 years of exclusive adventures you are always in our mind; we care about you, and hope to see you on one of our Maasai Prides Land Adventures special programs!

Maasai Prides Land Adventures is the only top-ranking tour company owned by indigenous Maasai people. MAA (our acronym) also stands for the language spoken by our people. As a pioneer (indigenous) organization in the tourism industry, which almost entirely relies on our native lands for its operations--80% of tourism activities take place in Maasailand in Kenya and Tanzania—MAA is uniquely positioned to give our clients an experience no other tour operator going to Maasailand can.

Our deliberate focus on providing Safari programs in Maasailand is influenced by indigenous knowledge of our landscapes and people, culture, wildlife, and the tourism sector; as well as inextinguishable desire to give our clients unadulterated cultural and wildlife experience.  

As well, MAA understands the power of the tourism industry to transform the lives of our community by supporting cultural and nature preservation programs and sustainable economic development. As a leading source of foreign exchange for our two countries, tourism can become a catalyst for equitable development and economic empowerment of indigenous communities.

To achieve this objective, MAA works with our Maasai people and community-based organizations, particularly the institute for Maasai Education, Research and Conservation (MERC) and Mara Natives Guides Association (MNGA). As multi-faceted program, grassroots organization MERC is dedicated to the protection of traditional land rights of the Maasai people, and to the conservation, management and sustainable use of the land. MNGA is an association of young Maasai men and women dedicated to safeguarding ecological integrity of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve and wildlife and habitat conservation for posterity while engaging in commercial ecotourism programs. This special partnership serves as a model for transforming the way safari tourism is conducted in Maasailand by establishing standards that create meaningful and memorable cross-cultural experiences for travelers while ensuring cultural survival and economic benefits to our community. As such, our commitment is to give you a memorable experience without compromising our culture and the environmental future of Maasailand.

MAA operations are guided by strict business values including dedication, honesty, competence, and excellent service delivery to our valued clients; and we strive to be “the leading adventure company” in the whole of East Africa!

Finally, we know that you have countless travel options and we thank you for choosing us as your preferred host in East Africa.

Did You Know?

Q. That Maasailand remains the most promising home to East Africa's wildlife?

Q. That Maasai people do not kill wildlife for food or trophy because our culture prohibits destruction of nature?

Q. That Maasai grazing lands serve as habitat to 65% of Kenya’s wildlife and that 80% of all parks and game reserves located in Maasai territories?

A. In Kenya: Maasai Mara, Buffalo Springs, and Samburu Game Reserves and Amboseli, Tsavo East, Lake Nakuru, and Nairobi National Parks, and most 90% of wildlife conservancies are located in Maasai territories.

A. In Tanzania: Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Taragire, Mkomazi, Lake Manyara, Lake Eyasi, and Mt. Meru National Parks are located in Maasai territories.

Q. That many Travelers have never seen a real Maasai Village let alone Manyatta?

A. Manyatta (wrong spelling)…Is a normal Maasai homestead called in our language Enkang.
   
Emanyatta (correct spelling)…Is a warriors’ or any other ceremonial village created for a specific purpose and for a specific period of time after which it is vacated and destroyed by burning. Maasai ceremonies are rare and mostly not open to outsiders because of their sacred nature. However, outsiders may be allowed to visit by presenting a request to the elders in charge of the particular ceremony being undertaken.

Unfortunately, travelers are made to belief they are visiting a real manyatta or even that they are meeting real Maasai warriors when they go to commercial villages located along tourists’ circuits.

Tour guides often charge the traveler between 20 and 30 dollars per head but only 5 dollars (total) is given the “village” chief—a fictitious fellow who is used to facilitate this rip off of both the traveler and the community.

In conjunction with the Institute for Maasai Education, Research and Conservation (MERC), Mara Native Guides Association and political leadership of the Maasai people at the grassroots level, MAA is leading an industry-wide campaign to protect the Maasai people from cultural and economic exploitation and to protect the traveler from such misleading acts.

 Q. Why should go to Maasailand?

 A. To answer these question, we take you on lifetime adventure that includes meeting and learning from our local communities, conservationists and civil society organizations, park managers, and traditional, spiritual and political leadership. While we are aware of potential dangers posed by over exposure of our culture, only this program will give you a limited but rare access to the inside of our society.