Masai Market

Day 24
8:00 Breakfast
10:00 Shopping at the Masai Market
1:30 Lunch
3:00 Trip to Karen
5:00 Archaeology
6:30 Dinner

   "The Masai Market was a long open area that people laid down their things. I thought it would just be beads like in the villages, but it was everything you could dream of. The strips between the shops was very narrow and were littered with garbage. It was very tight with lots of people. It was annoying that people would grab my wrist and want me to look at their things. Eventually a guy introduced himself, he was what I guess was called a 'buyer' and he took me to the places I wanted to buy things. The way a 'buyer' works is he will hold all your things from all the places and at the end give you a price. It's an easy way to get ripped off and I soon realized this so I struck out on my own again." After comparing some of my purchases with the other girls, I found that I got some good deals but overpaid on other items. I didn't mind because it was a fantastic experience and I came away with several banana leaf pictures, soapstone carvings, wood carvings and some jewelry all for thirty bucks! 10 years ago today I got my first taste of bartering, a valuable skill for an international traveller!