variants
or Masai
plural Maasai or Maasais or Masai or Masais
1
: a member of a pastoral and hunting people of Kenya and Tanzania
2
: the Nilotic language of the Maasai people
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Drives are done in both the Maasai Mara National Reserve and the far-less-busy Mara North Conservancy, which is land privately owned by the Maasai but part of the same ecosystem.
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Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
Older kids and teenagers often enjoy spear-throwing with a Maasai warrior, horseback riding, hot-air balloon rides, and canoeing in the Okavango Delta.
—Maija De Rijk-Uys, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Since 2022, the Tanzanian government had relocated more than 9,600 Maasai from this corner of the country.
—Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
The Maasai Mara is iconic because of the Great Migration.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2024
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Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
Older kids and teenagers often enjoy spear-throwing with a Maasai warrior, horseback riding, hot-air balloon rides, and canoeing in the Okavango Delta.
—Maija De Rijk-Uys, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Since 2022, the Tanzanian government had relocated more than 9,600 Maasai from this corner of the country.
—Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
The Maasai Mara is iconic because of the Great Migration.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Maasai.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Maasai. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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