I recently had the opportunity to adjust the indigenous people of the Maasai Mara and Mount Kenya regions of Kenya in East Africa. What started out as a photo-safari vacation, ended up being a great chance to share chiropractic with these ancient and fascinating cultures.

My wife, Cate, contacted the hosts of the Lewa Downs Tented Camps and the Maasai River Camp before our trip to advise them that we would be organizing daily chiropractic clinics at each site for the duration of our stay.

She emphasized that we would like to adjust the entire community and that they should bring everyone, young and old alike.

As we flew over Mt. Kenya in our tiny four-seater Cessna, I was spellbound by the vastness of the veld below, the huge herds of wildebeest and zebra, the solitary packs of elephants and the families of giraffe with their long necks, (only seven cervical vertebrae!).

I flashed that this land was truly the fountainhead of life on Earth, the fecund birthplace, Eden of biblical fame.

Lewa Downs Tented Camps, located at the foot of Mount Kenya, is part of a 50,000-acre former cattle ranch that is now a conservancy for the white and black rhinoceros. All proceeds from the camp go back into preserving the nearly extinct species.

The tented camps are rustic but very comfortable with beds and hot and cold running water. The camp has world-famous gourmet food and very knowledgeable personal guides. When not gorging ourselves on the fine cuisine, we were on safari in open-air Land Rovers exploring the rich and diverse flora and fauna.

We began our chiropractic odyssey by adjusting the entire staff of Lewa Downs. They were very excited and soon put us in contact with the local medical missionary clinic. A large part of the community was already waiting for us as we arrived at their clinic.

Cate quickly organized a lay-lecture that was translated into Swahili, complete with an ingeniously crafted model of the spine and spinal cord made of a green twig (spinal cord) wrapped by her two fists (vertebrae). The villagers instantly understood her simple yet eloquent explanation and flocked into the clinic for their adjustments.

Agnes, the head of the clinic, was thrilled by the message of chiropractic and relieved to find an alternative to drugs for keeping her village healthy. We adjusted children in rags, women in their traditional garb complete with huge golf ball-sized piercings in their ears, and game wardens with their machetes and rhino guns propped in the corner.

We ended our stay at Lewa Downs at the residence of the founder's son. We adjusted all staff and residents on the veranda overlooking a creek where lions hunted at dawn and a tribe of baboons were currently engaged in their cacophonous nightly ritual.

They gave us an open invitation to return with the possibility of free lodging as an added incentive. After a dawn horseback safari we adjusted a few subluxated horses and caught our flight to Maasai Mara.

Our camp at Maasai Mara game reserve was perched on the Hippo and croc-riddled Maasai River. We set up a meeting with the director of the eight medical clinics of the vast park. He and the rest of the medical staff were thrilled to organize a chiropractic clinic in one of the nearest clinic sites.

We were able to adjust most of the local village and when school got out, they emptied the classroom straight into our waiting room! It was a tremendous joy to adjust so many children and at the same time saddening to see their poor state of health and hygiene.

We adjusted many Maasai warriors garbed in their traditional red dress -- but we had to ask them to leave their spears in the waiting room (thinking that their breakfast of fresh cows blood may have left them hot-blooded).

The medical director was very enthusiastic about the possibilities that chiropractic care could offer to his beleaguered people and immediately extended an invitation to organize a permanent volunteer chiropractic clinic and to house chiropractors in local housing and shuttle them between the several clinics in the park.

Maasai Mara is probably the most famous game reserve in Africa because of its vastness, diversity, and large concentration of predators. We witnessed lions mating, cheetahs hunting and a leopard eating a huge wildebeest that he had hauled up a tree.

This is also the site of the annual wildebeest and zebra migration when millions of animals migrate from the Serengeti in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara in Kenya engaged in their eternal Darwinian passion play.

This was a life-altering, wondrous, and provocative experience both as a chiropractor and as an existential primate. I was awestruck by the immensity of Kenya, the diversity and beauty of all of God's creatures there and the tremendous need that the Kenyan people have for our gift of chiropractic.

I encourage any chiropractor with a desire for adventure and for sharing their gift to contact me for a possible visit to Kenya. If enough of us get involved we could stage a permanent chiropractic presence in one of the most stunning and needful regions of the planet.

Take the chance and sign-up. I promise that you will never regret or forget the experience.