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These are the Masai warriors of East Africa. They're known for surviving on cow's blood and milk, carrying a fierce warrior tradition, and living by customs that are completely outside the modern world. This is a cow dunk. We use them to wash our hands. Their bright red robes and jumping dances may look welcoming to tourists, but their culture is as intense and unpredictable as any other in Africa. Just straight bow and arrow to the neck. Today I'm stepping into a rural Masai village to immerse myself in their culture. How will they receive me as an outsider? Is their lifestyle really as intense as it sounds? There's only one way to find out.
My name is Moses. I'm a Masai from Masiland. This is where we live. If you see this uh bulma is belong to one uh man. So he married more than one women. That's why you can see more than uh one house here. So one guy has many wives. Is he Are you the guy? Sure. No, I'm not the guy, but my brother. How many wives does he have? He has five women. How many women do you have? Just one. But maybe later when I get a lot of cows, I can married more than one. You see here the pl for the cows. So we just put the cows inside and then we pull like this because of the predator. So if the hyenas come inside of the bulma, it's difficult to jump.
I know that Nangoro crater is like right there. So do the hyenas come around this area also? Uh the hyenas they coming around here. So if you see that mountain that the place where the lions they stay so they don't come close much to the bomber. Where are the cows now? They went to the grass. So why do you have the stick? This is to take care of the cows and also the masai. We never walk without a stick because sometime we take cows to get a water and sometime the other warriors from the other cows they can fight with us. So everything you do revolves around animals. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Where do you sleep?
I sleep inside of the hut there. So you can mind your head. The house is too small to enter inside. I'm short enough to get in here. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh, it's cool. Wow. There's no light in here. No. So, this is where you sleep? Yes, sure. So, this is a bed where I can sleep. So, you can come close and see what kind of a mattress we have the Masai people. We use the leather cow. We don't have uh the mattress. This is what we use from our cows. So, we benefit from our cows because we can drink milk.
We eat meat. We drink uh fresh blood. And also when we take them to the mid camp, we just get the leather from the cow and then we come to use it at the mattress. Yeah, very comfortable. Also, we have a fireplace like here. So, you can just make a fire here and then we cook. So, when it rains, does the water come to the raining come? This houses we change the roof after 6 months before the raining come because when you live like that, the raining come inside. The women they put the grass every 6 months. So the water never come inside. How many people sleep in here? They sleep a lot because we have kids.
Five uh 10 people. They going to sleep this house. Yeah. Is that your mirror right there? Oh yeah. Just a small one. This is how we can prepare the house. So this is just a wood and we prepare without uh before painting. We're going to put the wood from the bush. Nice. And then it will be ready to put the roof. How many people live in your community here? More than 3,000 people living. 3,000 like around this whole area. Yeah. Where we are now, it's just like 20 and above people they living here. Is it your family?
Yeah. It seems like a really like peaceful life out here. Yeah, exactly. Peaceful uh people that friendly. We like to see the people like you. We don't see a lot of people here. How come your English is so good? I just went to some college and yeah in Arouchia. I'm getting dressed. Thank you. So now you're Masai. Now I'm dressed like a proper Masai. Tell me about your day-to-day life in culture. The daily life we are warriors. So the warriors they take care of the cows every day. Also the women they just sit home with a kid and also they going
to be home to beat like some sinks like this one. So tell me what do cows mean for the Masai people? We use them for many stuff. We drink milk from the cows. We milk them. And also we get the blood, the fresh blood from the cows. So you drink the blood? Yes. As like instead of water or just like as a snack like what is it used for? Like uh like your food. So we mix fresh blood with the milk and also he make us to be strong. Everybody drinks the blood. the kids everybody kids uh we have the blood and uh during the uh dry season because in dry season we don't have food we just uh depend the blood from the cows we just take the blood from here from the neck
yeah from the neck I've traveled to Tanzania many times and I've noticed that the Masai they're always on the side of the road they're very touristy every tourist wants to visit Masai That was the funniest thing I ever saw. How does that make you feel? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? I think people they put for the businesses. I think for us is not really good. Also, we try to teach them how to take them away. Don't come to the road to ask the touristy anything about it because we have everything, we have milk, we have kettle. We're going to welcome you with the gods. And now we're going to kill the goat to drink the fresh blood and to have the barbecue from the Masai uh
village. We are not allowed the women to see our meat when we eat. So we going to kill goats outside of the bulma. So you don't kill it in front of the woman? No, no, no. The goat is being sacrificed in this little hole behind me. That's how they do it in the Messiah tribe. The way they kill the goat is they suffocate it. Just two men. One covers the nose and the mouth and the other holds the legs down until it dies. Literally takes 60 seconds and the goat is gone. Why do you kill the goat like this? We kill like this because when we cut the blood is coming out and then the meat is not so sweet. So when we kill like this, we get a lot of blood and also the meat is
going to be sweet. So one goat can feed this whole community, right? Yes. because uh we don't eat that much. So we just give each other. We got some for kids and some meat for the women and some for the warriors. This is the way you can make very easy to get a lot of blood. That's why I'm doing like this. How do you extract the blood? Can just bring the blood when inside of the stomach. So we take the stomach in outside and then we leave uh the blood inside and then we will drink.
What's happening right now? We just take the stomach uh outside and then we drink the blood. That's pretty gory below me. Now they are skinning the goat and pulling out all the insides. The intestines, the lungs, the heart, all the organs are being ripped out by hand. What is that? This is we call it pancreas. You eat it. Yeah. Yes. We eat. We going to burn it then. But you know the function of this? This one is in order to collect all the poison. When the animal eat any kind of the poison, this is for the collection of the poison. Right. This one we call it a small intestine.
Yeah. And this one we call it a rin. Mhm. Yes. Stomach. Yes. So this is a liver. So we going to milk the liver to move out all the blood inside of the liver. And then we're going to burn in order to eat. Okay. Burn it like on the fire. Yes. We're going to burn that in the fire. What's your favorite part of the goat? I like to heat the kidney cuz it's very sweet. This is a room. The stomach. Yes. This is stomach. We already clean. It looks like underwear. This is how inside. So this one is so the next thing in order to see a lot of blood. So we're going to remove I mean the lungs with the heart.
Doesn't smell bad. I don't smell anything. This the lungs and this one is the heart. You eat everything. You eat all? Yes. Everything we eat. This is we mix with the blood and then we drink. Okay. Uh this is a part of small of the small intestine. You mix the intestine in the blood then you drink it. Yeah. Sometime you mix some you don't like to mix we drink. What's the purpose of that? To make to be sweet. So now Moses is going to drink the blood.
Another one we want to try. That was so gnarly man. Oh the slurp. I have filmed a lot of things in this planet and that is one of the most intense I've seen just the slurping. How was that? So when we drink the blood we feel so good because it's it will make us to be strong. Which animal has the tastiest blood? I just ship and go. I just count. You want to try, bro? Perfect. Shoot. I'm first. All right. Don't try this at home. You're welcome. You can How do I do it? Try with your hand. Take with your hand and then drink it.
Let's do it together. Okay. So sweet. It's actually sweet. Yeah, it's really sweet. It's just the visuals that really get me. All right, Cory's turn. Oh my gosh. The taste isn't bad. Yeah, it's not bad. Seconds. Wow. It is not bad. It's not bad. It's definitely the visual. Yeah. Finish. Get in there. Clearly, I'm not good enough. I got some blood on my nose left over. Oh, man. You know what's funny? I actually have blood all over my face, but because my beard is red, it blends in, but it goes onto the towel.
That's up there with some of the weirdest stuff that we've If your eyes were closed, it tastes terrible. Yeah. Have you ever seen a mazongu do that? Um, no. Never seen no you guys you sat your warriors when I spit it's all blood many Masai people do they prefer to stay in the village or do they want to go into the city and get an education they are here we love to stay in the village or previous time the masai they didn't went to school but now we try to take them to school but when they went to school they back to the village they don't want to move no like you like me. Yeah.
Have you ever traveled to a different city or a different country? Um just went uh a little bit Jerusalem and Arushia and Nairobi, Kenya. You went to Nairobi? Yeah. What did you think about it? People they are busy than our city in Tanzania. Tanzania people they are very friendly. You don't think Kenyans are friendly? No. You can speak to them swahili, right? Yeah, I speak but they don't speak a good swi like us in Tanzania. This is kind of uh cigarette the to from the tumbaku. So we don't smoke the cigarette. We smoke this by the nose.
And you just put this in your nose and it will tingle. Jesus, not crying. It's Do you do it like all day long? Yeah. Yeah, every time we do. Yeah. Do you buy at the market or do you source it? Uh, yeah, we buy from the market, but also our women, they can prepare for us. The Masai have been living by these traditions for thousands of years. Their ancestors migrated south from the Nile region and built a powerful culture around cattle, which became the center of wealth, identity, marriage, and
belief. Masai society was organized by age, turning boys into young warriors trained in discipline and endurance. By the 19th century, the Masai were the most feared and respected people in these plains. However, drought, disease, and colonial rule resulting in land loss changed their world forever. Despite all of that, the Masai have preserved a language, identity, and culture that stands out across Africa today. And many of them, like Moses, are now able to get proper education as they are integrated into modern society. I'm heading to a nearby school to see what this transformation looks like up close.
We made it to a special place. Yeah. What is this? The small school for the kids. You started the school. Yeah. Yes. Why is education important to you? A lot of kids from the village. They didn't go to school. So, we try to give them education. Right now is a holiday, so the kids are not here. But yeah, Moses is a nice guy. Yeah. Very, very nice of you. Yeah. Thank you. How can you help show them that education is so important for their livelihood?
I can show them that uh education is more important that you can go work and then you can find money and then you come to buy more cows in the village and then to take care of your family. Oh, you see my boys here. Those are your boys. Yes, my boys. What are their names? This is Lazaro Lucas and Good Luck. But this one, he's my uncle. Nephe. Yeah. Nice to meet you, bro. Oh, I'm digging GZA. This the strongest boy right here. Yeah. They speak English. Oh, you speak English?
Yes. Do you study in this school? No. Yes. We I take them to the private schools. Do you also drink the blood from the cow? Yes. You do? Yes. How is it? Good. There's a lot of beauty to explore around here and Moses wants to take us to his favorite spot in the plains. An untouched lake filled with flamingos. We made it. Yeah. Welcome. Righted here. Uh we on the lake nearby Gorangor and Mara National Park. This place uh no river to bring the water here. We depend the raining season and also from the village that we were sleeping. The cows, they're coming here and drink the water from here.
It's so beautiful to be out here. We just drove 10 15 minutes and we're in this beautiful nature reserve with flamingos just walking around. So cool, bro. Yeah, sure. Your home is so beautiful. Nature. You're most welcome. The nature here is undefeated. It's so beautiful, pristine, green, fantastic. And I'm with my boys here. Before we continue our adventure in Tanzania, I want to take a quick second to thank the sponsor of this video, Packdraw. Packdraw is an online pack opening platform where you can win thousands of real prizes. I'm talking Pokémon cards, jewelry, watches, and even cars. You can have it shipped straight to your door within one or two
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Yeah, sure. So they are not silent town. They have very beautiful faces. Yeah, it's really beautiful. How are the Masai people different than the other tribe? You can see that they dress the difference closes, Masai closes and then they have long ears wearing the earrings. What is the secret to living a happy life? to live in um our culture and to live the bush nature and uh to live with our cows. We have difference uh beautiful stuff in and masil. Why are masai men allowed to have many wives like it's like Muslim is because according to our culture we have to more than one woman and also we have a big number of cows. One woman she
never take care of the cows. So that's why we married more um women. How many is the maximum? From 10 to 20. Yeah. So some people have 20 wives. Yes. Some people they have 20 wives. So also here they sell uh coffee. Thank you. That's a Ethiopian coffee. Yeah. It's really small one traditional and we buy very cheap less of half dollar. So yeah, life is good man. Yeah. If I come back here in 10 years, you will be doing the same thing. Sure. Your kids will be a little older. No worries.
Another wife. Yeah. Maybe. What happened? Dude, are literally like I think someone didn't pay him money, so he needs money. They're fighting. I discover another market in the nearby city and I bump into two women who are traditionally Masai but live a modern lifestyle. Talking to them proves how much the culture is changing. Are you guys originally from Arushia or a different place? I'm from Arushia and Masai. Cuz I visited like this Masai village near Nong Girl Crater. But those people they live like really traditional life. But here the Masai people they're not traditional anymore.
Yeah. We're not traditional that much. Is that a good or a bad thing? 50/50. Yeah. Do you think it's for you personally? Are you happier here or I'm very happy with my life. You look happy. Yeah, I'm very happy. How about you? Happy. Yeah. You know when I asked the people in the Masai village, they all told me that they don't want to come to the city. They all want to stay in the village. Oh, you didn't know that. And we I'm not I don't want to go to the village. I want to stay. So it's different. So there's like a Yeah. Because you born here 50/50/50.
You know your original the place you were born is very you know the origin of the place. Exactly. I'm going to show you something I did with the Masai tribe. I'm about to try some goat blood. Don't try this at home. You're welcome. You can. How do I do it? Yeah. Watch. Oh, your parents and grandparents. My grandpa drink it now. Yeah. He still drinks it. Yeah. So, when you go to the village and do you visit him? Yeah. Of course. Yeah.
Do you think it's crazy that they drink blood from the goat? No. Cuz it's tradition. Yeah. Do you think these people, these Masai people prefer to be in the city or they want to be back in the village? They prefer to be to the city. That's why because they are born in the city. They're not that good in the village lives. Do you think that in 50 years from now there will be no more people in villages. They will all be in the city. They will also be in the city. After getting a taste of modern life in town, it's time to head back to Moses's village and reconnect with the
traditional side of Masai culture. This is really a cool experience. Like, we're just out here in the middle of the bush. These guys are super friendly. They're cooking for us. They're making jokes. Some of the guys speak really great English. As the sun begins to set here in this beautiful land, all the Masai kids are coming out. They're playing football. Here we go with a little ball. Oh, nice shot, bro. Nice shot. Nice shot, buddy. Hell yeah. These kids are so adorable, just playing soccer just like we did growing up, except they have the most epic backdrop in the world. A lot of feelings of being
really grateful to be here to shoot this story. It's just absolutely superb out here. It's perfect. It's a beautiful evening. They say don't come to Tanzania in rainy season. Well, look, it's rainy season right now. Look how beautiful it is. Hi, how are you? Unaipa. Okay. Thank you. Asanteana. Those dudes are hammered. They're just chilling, boozing. As the sun begins to set, the Masai men come out of their huts to do a traditional song and dance, something they are very famous for in Africa. Why do you guys do that? What's the point of the jump jumping? Also when we coming from the meat camp we have to think that we finished the meat and then the neighbors uh from the villages they know that uh the warriors from the meat camp they
here at home and now we are dancing and in order to go inside of the houses to have the fresh milk from the cow. So you have a different song for every Yeah. But for the jumping it's kind of competition. Yeah. Who's the best jumper here? I think Moses. Who? What else? Yeah. Me? Whoa. Yeah, me. Are you the best? Yeah, I'm the best. More than modern. It's pretty close. Uh I don't know. Did you What do you think of this? Put that very high tie. I think it's a tie. Damn, that's hard, bro. I'm tired. I'm tired, man.
The jumping seriously makes me out of breath. But now it's time to try the goat that's been cooking for hours. For the Masai, this is a normal part of life, and their stomachs are completely used to it. But for me, that is definitely not the case. What part of the goat is this? This a liver. Thank you. Okay. You're welcome. Goat liver. It's kind of chewy. It's not the best taste for me, but it's okay. Yeah. How is it, bro? What is this? It's good. Literally doesn't get any fresher than this. This goat was alive 2 hours ago. So freaking tasty.
Thank you. What is this? This a part of meat from the rich. Really tasty, Moses. What a cool moment, bro. Yeah. Fresh goat. Yeah. Beautiful nature. Yeah. Cool. Man, you just bit that bone like nothing. You guys are very friendly. I have a random question for you. Mhm. Not about Masai. Yeah. Have you ever seen any albino kids here? Not around here. Have you seen them anywhere? I saw anywhere. Yes. And what do you think about them?
I was thinking that they're like you, like white people like you. Yeah. But later I see like he's he's not. So, do people around here do they like them or they don't like them? Here in Masai Island, we like them. You like them? We see them like a human being. When you cut him, the blood come out. Yes. Everybody has the same red blood. I love that. Exactly. Yeah. I heard that in some parts of Tanzania, they think it's like bad or they try to kill those people, you know.
Oh, yeah. Sure. I heard also about that Yeah. They killed them to get, I don't know, money or whatever. So, how do you feel that other Tanzanians, they don't like them? I feel uh bad because the human being like yes and then they born like Yes. So it's just different scala. Yeah. Your village is beautiful. Really? It's really beautiful. Yeah. So you enjoying? Yeah. Have you ever left to go to a different place or you always stay here? Yeah. Well, right. Yeah. I will be in Arusha. I will be in Ma. I will be in the DMA. But you prefer here? Sometime I like but I like this. This one is very important more than town.
Can you tell me about your tribal marks? Yeah. You know this is our identity. So when you're born your mom does it? Yes. By using a knife. My grandmother. Do you enjoy life? Life is nice. Yeah, exactly. We're enjoying our life. You like this life? Very peaceful. Yeah, very peaceful. And everybody people love each other. Is it important that Masai marries a Masai? Yes. And what happens for the wedding? What's the dowy?
Yeah. If you marry a women must pay the cow. How many cows? Around 20 to 30. You give to their family. Yes. So more beautiful girl, 30 cows. For us, we believe all women are beautiful because when we marry women, so we just marry women to come to help you and also to get kids from the women. So we believe every women is beautiful. That's really nice. Yes. And we believe all people are equal. That's really nice, guys. Yes. The Masai people are cow people. Everything is about their cattle. It is their money. It is their wealth. It is how you pay dari to women. And it's
food. And right now as the sun is almost set, all the cows are coming in from the field. and they keep them right here in the center of the village. The cows also provide a lot of blood which the Masai love to drink. It's a thousand-year-old tradition tied to strength, healing, and survival. And it reflects how central cattle are to their way of life. Often the blood is taken by shooting an arrow in the cow's neck. And they're about to show me how it's done. What is that? Uh milk with the uh blood. So you see some milk inside and this is uh the color bash to we used to milk the cows and now we're going to get the blood from the cow and then we're going to drink here. So you're not going to kill it. You're
just going to get the blood. No, just get the blood. Yeah. Oh [__] So that is absolutely insane. Just straight bow and arrow to the neck. Why do you do this? Uh we do this because uh these boys they're going to take care of the cows and then we have to feed them to be full in order to But why blood and not milk? Blood and milk because this is our traditional food. Oh yeah. This is a cow dunk and we use them to wash our hand if you there is anything dirty. As you see the blood before that I get from the cow and now I'm just wash my hand with a cow dung. So we don't
need a water to wash that. So now you see that no blood at all. The women they are beating the necklasses and this is women activities as you see they have earrings and uh necklaces on the necks like you see my um my bell here. Yeah. So I mean my wife she didn't make for me but uh my girlfriend make for me. So this is kind of we got jokes. This is how they brush their teeth. They just take a stick from the acacia tree and just clean the teeth. That's it. What is that? The wood from aacesha tree. This is what we put our ears when we do uh cutting. And then you start to uh put the small ones and then the biggest one. So now I have the biggest one. So yeah, I'm going to for Yeah. And they're starting but
now no problem. Oh man, that's crazy. Yeah. Wow. In the evening, we gather around the fire to dig in and enjoy round two of the precious goat. We're having a beautiful little dinner here next to the campfire. Just got a whole freaking bone here. I'm just going to bite it straight into it. So tasty. Do you guys have any stress living here? It seems really peaceful. Yeah. Very pleasure. Do you stress about anything? No. You don't stress about getting food like feeding your kids or when it rains like nothing stresses you out?
No. We just take care of our cows and dry season that they never die. How do you make money now? We can just uh milk and sell milk. So, it's all about the cows. Yeah. So, if you have no cows, you have no money. Yeah. Sure. Really? Mhm. You don't hunt or anything? No. No, we don't. Did your grandparents hunt? For previous time, we can kill animals. Lion. Why we killed the lion? Because we're proud that we are warriors. And then warriors community. Look at this knife.
Yeah. Freaking warrior. Oh, the community they going to trust you that you're a good warrior. Maybe in the future or one day I come to your country. Make sure you have cows and u I will take care of them because we are proud as Masai people that every cows from everywhere in the world is belong to Masai. What is that knife? Yeah, the knife. Oh, you want it for what? Yeah. You want to just cut your bones and some meat there like that? Mhm. So good. Mhm. If you could say any message to people in the world watching this video, what would you tell them? Keeping your culture and uh reorganize the indigenous community.
It's a nice message. Yeah. Thank you. I think indigenous culture is being removed quickly. Like in 50 years, I think a lot of cultures are gonna be everyone's every city is becoming so diverse. Everyone's like, you know, and M Island, not today. Good. Yeah. Thanks for this experience, man. You're welcome. Super fun. I don't think that we let you go back to America. So, you're going to lift on my island. Sounds like a plan, dude. Thank you. You're welcome. Guy's a legend right here. Today was one of the most eye-opening experiences I've had in all of my travels to every country in the world.
The Masai way of life challenged me, surprised me, and reminded me how much strength there is in holding on to tradition, even as the world evolves around you. I'm leaving this village with a lot of respect and a lot of gratitude. Huge thank you to Moses, his family, and the Masai community for welcoming me into your world. And I'd love to hear your opinions and thoughts in the comments down below. Also, I apologize if this video was a little more gory than normal, but this is just real life out here, and I am blessed to be able to share it.
