Opening 1 June 2015. Angama, named after the Swahili word ‘to be suspended mid-air’, is literally perched on the edge of the Rift Valley escarpment and sees each tented suite and guest area seemingly hanging on the edge with views that quite simply take your breath away. End-to-end glass fronts, sweeping canvas, polished parquet floors, just the right amount of furniture and decks overhang the Masaai Mara below. Guests wake up to hot-air balloons sailing past the 10m wide floor-to-ceiling glass fronts of their tented suites. Situated on two of three kopjes, the third was featured in the film Out of Africa, remains untouched and will be Angama Mara’s picnic spot.
What defines Angama Mara from other safari lodges is its location on a site almost without equal. Every tented suite shares a 180° view of the Mara below, possibly the best-known game reserve in the world, and one which consistently delivers extraordinary viewing of all Africa’s great mammals, and The Great Migration from July to October each year. Angama Mara guests descend a private track directly from the lodge to the most beautiful, least visited and best-managed part of the reserve – The Mara Triangle.
The Out of Africa back-story adds romance and nostalgia to the guest experience – when they arrive at the lodge guests will feel as if they have been there before. And where else in Africa can you wake up to the sight of balloons floating gently by at the foot of your bed in the very heart of Maasailand?
Click on the video to fly above, beyond and around Angama Mara. Witness the untouched beauty of their site before building commenced, and experience how the light and clouds never sit still on the vast grasslands of the Mara below…
