Tourists learn alongside locals on guide-training safaris

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.