'GMA' on Safari: Witnessing a Maasai Wedding in Africa

— -- "Good Morning America" took viewers on an immersive tour of Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater and among the beautiful sites and exotic animals are the people living in their midst.

“GMA” co-anchor Amy Robach visited with the Maasai people in Tanzania, a nomadic tribe of warriors, historically cattle heders, to attend a wedding celebration of the village chief’s daughter.

The bride, 20, who will be the first wife of many wives to the groom, left her family for a new one after the groom, 27, paid a dowry of cattle.

“Just before they left the bride’s home, the elders from the tribe asked her, ‘Are you ready to go with this man?’ and she said ‘Yes,’” Phillip Koimiere, a translator of the Abercrombie and Kent tour operators told Robach. “The boy also was asked that, ‘Are you ready to take care of our daughter?’ and he said, ‘Yes’…he will.”

The Massai tribe maintains centuries-old traditions while still reconciling its place in the 21st century, even steering clear of technological advances.

The wedding showed determination to carry on their traditions, with the boys jumping and the girls singing, dancing and shaking their shoulders to impress one another.

“It’s part of the few tribes in Africa that’s still very proud of their culture,” Koimiere said.