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Tourists learn alongside locals on guide-training safaris

photo If you’re “lucky” on the Pyramids of Life safari, you will see lions chasing down and killing prey, then hear them crunching on the bones as they eat.

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If you goPyramids of Life: Program offered annually for three weeks in March, though guests can sign up for shorter periods;go to http://serian.com/we-call-it-home/masai-mara-kenya/serian-the-original.

KENYA – It’s not just a safari. It’s a master class in the untamed world, a behind-the-scenes education with experts who are the talking Google gods of wildlife.

That’s what it’s like on safaris that let tourists learn alongside locals who are training to be guides.

The guides, members of Kenya’s Maasai tribe, spend three weeks on a training mission traversing East Africa’s Maasai Mara region under the tutelage of senior guiding experts. And tourists can come along for the Land Cruiser rides.

The three-week expedition, called Pyramids of Life, moves from Kenya’s Mara North Conservancy, which borders the country’s famous Masa Mara region, to Tanzania’s northern and southern Serengeti. But unlike this one is not just about drive-by photo opportunities. It’s about learning to become attuned to the sights and sounds of nature so you’re able to predict and identify what may be moving about in the plains.