A thrilling initiation into some of the fundamental customs of our Maasai warrior traditions, the course is concentrated on how we defend ourselves out in the bush far from home, and how we protect our animals from predators.

You will have an introduction to our culture, how our society is organised and we’ll teach you some of the basics of our language. We’ll spend most of the time in our outdoor classrooms – perhaps in a sandy riverbed or a shaded clearing. Part of the course is a short upwards hike to give you a wide-angle view of the wilderness around us.

Central to being a Maasai warrior is the ability to protect family and cattle, and you will spend your days learning our fighting techniques. Our weapons are hand-fashioned from local hardwoods by master craftsmen. Which will be your natural weapon? The bow and arrow, perhaps? Or our 6ft (2m) fighting spears? Or maybe our rungus – short throwing sticks of wood so dense they can crack a skull. You’ll need to know how to deflect attacks with our famous cow-hide shields – we’ll show you that too.

All of these activities, like everything you do with Maasai Warrior Training, will be carried out with constant vigilance to your safety and that of everyone around you.

We’ll show you how we wrestle – for those times when all our weapons are depleted and we have only our hands and our muscles – and how to track our enemies and how to set an ambush to trap them. You’ll learn how to recognise the different footprints and signs that animals leave – which animal or person has been stalking your boma (homestead) at night? You will also learn how we track our livestock to find them if they are lost, and to identify which predator may have tried to attack them.

Everything is designed to teach you some of the secrets of what we do, and it’s also great fun. We’ll take it all at your pace. And we’ll make sure that we spend time doing the activities you enjoyed the most as many times as you want.

Our second, more comprehensive adventure starts with all of the activities featured in the Introductory Training, and then switches focus onto the ways we have learned since we were children, of how to survive in what might appear to be very hostile terrain.

What are the key things you need to stay alive in tough landscapes? Water, shelter and food. At first none of these might seem to be easy to find. But we will show you how we find drinking water, how we identify the best fuel for campfires, and you’ll learn how to start a fire with nothing but two pieces of wood found nearby. We’ll explain the traps we can set, and how to skin a freshly-slaughtered goat and prepare its meat. To protect our animals against night-time predators, we build thick fences, and you’ll see the knowledge our people have built up over generations put into action.

Here, if you fall ill with a common, simple complaint, we know there is no need to go to the doctor. Nature’s pharmacy is all around us. We’ll show you how to grind or process plants and barks to cure malaria, backache or an upset stomach.

We’ll introduce you to some of the members of our tribe’s Council of Elders, who will join us around the campfire to talk of times past, our cultural history, our sacred beliefs – and of the adventures of their fascinating lives.

And all of this, everything you have learned, will be put into practice when you spend one day and one night out in the bush, sleeping under the stars (with a mosquito net) alongside us, your trainers. This will be a true experience of life as a Maasai warrior – aside from, perhaps, the presence of an armed wildlife ranger for a little extra protection.

On our last morning, you’ll graduate as a true Maasai Warrior Trainee, with memories that will last you into that time when you yourself are also an elder.

Our most comprehensive Training programme teaches you everything involved in the Introductory and Survivor packages, and then branches out to teach you about the most important aspect of our culture: our livestock. We believe that Enkai – our god – gave every cow on earth to us the Maasai. It is therefore a holy honour to treat them as well as we can; and in turn they become our symbols of wealth, material and the spiritual.

We’ll explain to you the importance of our livestock in our culture, we’ll teach you how to milk a cow and a goat, and then together we will herd them out to grazing, just as we to do. As we walk through the bush, you will learn to be alert to the bird-calls and signals warning of predators. We will show you how to judge which cows are the most healthy, which have hides covered in the markings and patterns we prize the most – and, so, which are the most valuable. You’ll learn how we protect them from disease and from predators (your fighting techniques might come in handy). We’ll teach you how we barter at the market to get the best price for a cow.

This all leads to what could be one of our most challenging activities for you – we’ll hike to a nearby homestead where your job will be to identify the strongest and healthiest cow, and use your bartering skills to purchase your chosen cow and then to bring it back safely to camp. Once you understand the value of cows to our culture, only now will you truly start to see what it means to be a Maasai.

To understand that, though, you will also be given a much broader insight into our culture, especially our jewellery and dancing, including our famous high-jump rituals, and their respective meanings. You’ll learn about how our mothers, wives and sisters live, and how that is different from our lives as Warriors. And we will spend time with a traditional religious healer, learning some of the rituals and traditions they use. At the finale of this, our Full Training, we will prepare a celebration party to show that you have ‘come of age’, decorating your skin and hair, and seeing if, now, you really can jump higher than the rest.