Angama Mara

Angama Mara

Descriprtion

Located high above the floor of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Angama Mara is a remarkable owner-run safari lodge overlooking Kenya’s Maasai Mara, considered by many as the loveliest game reserve on the continent. Angama Safari Camp, a light-footprint sole-use tented camp accommodating up to eight guests in four lovely ensuite tents sited deep in the Maasai Mara. This unique camp captures the romance and adventure of the glorious Golden Age of safaris, yet with a lightness of spirit that will both surprise and delight guests.

Welcome to Angama, inspired by the Swahili word for ‘suspended in mid-air’. Located high above the floor of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Angama Mara is a remarkable owner-run safari lodge overlooking Kenya’s Maasai Mara, considered by many as the loveliest game reserve on the continent.

Here guests will find a lodge where everything is as it ought to be: two intimate camps of just fifteen tented suites each, a private airfield and access to the Mara below, tailor-made safari days and a famously warm Kenyan welcome.

The lodge is perfectly complemented by Angama Safari Camp, an exclusive-use mobile tented camp sited deep in the Mara Triangle, and amidst the mega herds during the Great Migration.

The Rooms

Guests are accommodated in spacious Tented Suites, which have been designed for guests’ comfort and are reminiscent of a classical African safari, each with a view as lovely as the next. Every detail has been considered: end-to-end glass frontage, sweeping canvas, decks overhanging the Mara, and inside – polished parquet floors and just the right amount of furniture.

TENTED SUITES

Perched right on the edge of the escarpment, each of Angama Mara’s spacious 100 sqm Tented Suites has floor-to-ceiling glass spanning all along the front to make the most of the dramatic views. The interiors are uncluttered, classic and above all, comfortable with splashes of Maasai Red, French Khaki, copper and brass.

ROMANCE OF CANVAS TENTS

Guests are accommodated in spacious Tented Suites, which have been designed for guests’ comfort and are reminiscent of a classical African safari, each with a view as lovely as the next. Every detail has been considered: end-to-end glass frontage, sweeping canvas, decks overhanging the Mara, and inside – polished parquet floors and just the right amount of furniture.

Foods

Planning menus, sourcing ingredients, preparing delicious dishes and serving them in a dazzling choice of settings is what the Angama team loves to do best. It is a daunting challenge to prepare food in the middle of nowhere for guests who come from all four corners of the world, from different culinary cultures and who, quite rightly, expect the best of the best when it comes to choosing where to stay on their next holiday.

We believe that for our guests less is preferable to more. Certainly not less food, as we love feeding them as many times a day as they will allow us. Less fiddle, more authenticity. Less fancy imported ingredients, more locally grown. Less drizzles, gels and foams, more wholesome and generous. Less drama on the plate, more drama where we serve our food. Less ego in the kitchen, more a love of seeing our guests happy at what our chefs have prepared for them.

Our kitchen north star is simple: our food is good; our food is never fancy. And not a buffet in sight.

We draw inspiration from the finest ingredients Kenya has to offer: beautiful vegetables from the highlands, tropical fruits a-plenty from the coast, cheese from a renowned supplier just outside Nairobi, prawns from Malindi, freshwater fish from Lake Victoria and beef from the north. Kenyan cuisine is deeply influenced by Arab-inspired Swahili dishes from the coast and Indian food from the significant community that has called this country home for many generations.

We know that not one Michelin-starred chef in the world could prepare a picnic to compete with an Angama picnic served under a lone tree in the middle of the short grass plains of the Maasai Mara with only giraffe, elephant and buffalo as dining companions. Angama Mara has a beautiful one-acre kitchen garden, our Shamba, where guests pick their own vegetables and toss their own salads for lunch. In the evenings, our guests dine in a lantern-lit forest off a barbecue à la carte menu with the calls of hyena serenading them as they share stories of their day’s adventures on safari. This is what our guests remember most about our food.

Nothing is ever too much trouble for the Angama kitchen team. Gluten free? Easy. Vegan? No problem. Low sodium, kosher, no garlic, Chinese, food allergies, Halaal and food preferences are all in a day’s work. The children only like fish fingers. Done. Soymilk, almond milk? In the pantry. Our guests appreciate that our food is honest, fresh and, most of all, prepared and cooked with love. And served with love.

Drawing inspiration from that beautiful movie Out of Africa, the Angama team published a cookery book, Out of an African Kitchen. As so many guests request recipes it seemed much simpler just to publish a book which not only features Angama’s best loved dishes but is also a quirky anthology of reminiscences, anecdotes and stories from a bush kitchen set high up on the edge of the Great Rift Valley.

Wedding

With endless views of the Maasai Mara Reserve, Angama Mara serves as the most beautiful backdrop to your destination wedding, be it a classical ceremony, or a traditional Maasai blessing.

The team at the safari lodge loves nothing more than planning memorable weddings – always beautifully simple with hints of Maasai culture, overflowing with Kenya’s world-famous roses and views over Africa so wide that your guests will be overwhelmed by the splendour of it all.

We look forward to creating memories that will last a lifetime.