[PHOTOS] Pomp and colour as Maasai morans embrace culture in key ceremony

Maasai morans on Sunday displayed their culture in style during the Eunoto celebration in Kilgoris, Narok County.

The warriors applied red ochre on their hair during the crucial celebration that carries significant cultural meaning.

The Eunoto celebration is a rite of passage among the Maasai community where morans (warriors) transition to senior warriors.

During the celebration, the Maasai moran make a formation in style in a manner that depicts cultural richness.

This rite of passage brings together the families of the morans as well as local inhabitants and officials, in all several thousand people.

For five days, the Eunoto ceremony features traditional guttural chants, single-file dances on one leg and the adumu – the famous Maasai jump.

Cattle are sacrificed and their blood drunk by the young men, whose hair is shaved from their heads by their mothers.