In the Masai Mara, two very different and complementary experiences offer something for everyone. Angama Mara, high up on the escarpment overlooking the Mara Triangle below. And Angama Safari Camp. The exclusive-use tented camp set in the heart of the reserve, and surrounded by the mega herds during the Great Migration.
At both camps, you can expect a warm Kenyan welcome from a team of consummate and characterful professionals. With well-considered guest experiences, contemporary African design with surprising and delightful details throughout. And just enough spontaneity and humor to ensure that no one forgets to have fun.
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Angama Mara Main Camp
Angama Mara has views that stretch as far as the eye can see. Across the Masai Mara in Kenya, set some 300 meters below. Inspired by colonial country club living, the interiors of Angama Mara’s guest areas are wrapped on all four sides by glass-stacking doors. This offers guests an indoor/outdoor experience. With expansive decks, there is no defined sitting room, dining room, or bar. Just a charming mix of everything.
Many of the loveliest scenes from the legendary movie Out of Africa with Robert Redford and Meryl Streep were filmed on the site of Angama Mara. If you have ever watched it, then Angama Mara will be extra special for you as this is where part of it was filmed.
Angama Mara Main Camp Accommodation
The lodge is divided into two adjacent camps of just 15 x tented suites each, North and South Camp. The tents are all identical, each with wonderful views of the Mara below. Each camp has its own Guest Area and a team of hospitality staff. Between the two camps, and within easy walking distance of all the tents, is the Pavilion. Here, guests may enjoy the use of the Swimming Pool, the Fitness Room, the Safari Shop, the Maasai Beading Studio, and the Photographic Studio.
Each tented suite and guest area hangs on the edge of the Rift Valley. The spacious 100m² suites have floor-to-ceiling glass spanning all along the front to make the most of the dramatic views. They all have spacious decks. Where you can enjoy private dinners, and massage treatments and watch the wildlife in the Masai Mara. Wake up to hot-air balloons sailing past the 11m wide floor-to-ceiling glass fronts of your tented suite.
The interiors are uncluttered, classic and above all, comfortable with splashes of Maasai Red, French Khaki, copper, and brass.
Angama Safari Camp Accommodation
Angama Safari Camp is an intimate sole-use light-footprint movable camp in the Masai Mara. It is surrounded by astounding year-round wildlife. However; it is in the heart of the mega herds during the months of the annual Migration. Currently, the camp has 3 sites on private campsites deep in the remote wilderness areas of the Mara. With easy access to Angama Mara Camp, it offers guests the best of both. Days can be spent poolside at the lodge, with access to all the facilities at Angama Mara. Returning back to Safari Camp to enjoy starlit nights with only the wildlife to keep you company.
It has 4 x en suite tents of 32m2 each that accommodate up to eight guests. In the words of Nicky Fitzgerald, CEO of Angama:
“Our purpose is to provide an impeccable safari experience that distills the sophistication of simplicity right down to its very essence. Stare at the fire, listen to the birds, read, take a nap, relax in the red rocker, watch the sunset, cook over the coals; breathe the fresh air, try and count the stars, and share many stories. Our wish is for our guests to experience an overwhelming sense of ‘this is all mine’.”
There is a fresh, uncluttered approach to the camp’s design. Maximizing the light and views thanks to the tents’ landscape orientation. Interiors echo the fresh approach to the design of Angama Mara with the best of everything. But always just the right amount of everything. As the camps are mobile, there is no air conditioning. There are fans in the tents and in order to maximize cross ventilation, they have a four-layer tented roof system.
Best time to visit the Masai Mara
The Maasai Mara is great to visit all year round and there is always an abundance of wildlife. July through to September or October are the best months to visit for guests who would like to witness the Wildebeest Migration. And the dramatic river crossing. Others prefer to go outside these months so there aren’t as many people around. There are numerous resident herds that quite rightly do not deem it necessary to leave this beautiful reserve by embarking on the annual trek to Tanzania.
The Maasai Mara is especially renowned for its prides of lions (including the Angama Pride, just below the lodge). The other members of Africa’s Big Five are also regularly sighted, together with hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the bat-eared fox. Of course, the Mara River is home to numerous pods of hippos and some of Africa’s largest crocodiles. Great photographic opportunities present themselves with topi standing perched on anthills. Or Masai giraffe moving gracefully across the plains. Both Grant’s and Thomson’s Gazelles graze peacefully amongst Coke’s hartebeest, impala, and herds of lovely eland, the continent’s largest antelope.
The Mara Triangle is also home to more than 470 bird species. Including almost 60 raptors such as vultures and martial eagles. Surely the loveliest of them all has to be the graceful crowned crane. These are always found in pairs, together with secretary birds, lilac-breasted rollers, long-crested eagles, superb starlings, pygmy falcons, and endangered ground hornbills to name just a few.
Angama Mara’s experienced guides make every effort to deliver life-changing wildlife adventures for their guests. Be it for first-timers, birding enthusiasts, or photographers of all skill levels. Or safari devotees whose great joy is just to simply be amongst Africa’s creatures, both great and small.
Out of Africa Movie
When the location scouts for the movie Out of Africa came searching for a site that was similar to Ngong Hills, they found the perfect site here. Some of the loveliest scenes were filmed just a few minutes’ walk from the lodge. In celebration of this, there are subtle touches in and around the lodge.
Guests at Angama Mara lodge are surprised by a private picnic for two on the crest of the Out of Africa kopje. Wicker basket, a checked blanket, and a Stanley flask. This is only available to guests staying at Angama. For those guests who love the movie or are hopeless romantics, this is surely the highlight of any stay. On the way back to the lodge, stop in to pay your respects.
Angama Location & Access:
Daily scheduled flights from Nairobi’s Wilson Airport to Angama Mara or the closest airstrip to Angama Safari Camp’s location. The flights are about 45 minutes, depending on the routing. Angama Mara airstrip is only a 5-minute drive from camp. Getting to Safari Camp is on average about a 60-minute safari, depending on game viewing en route
There is excellent air access from Nairobi and the Serengeti (via Migori in Kenya and Tarime in Tanzania)
The camps are easily accessible by road from other camps in the Greater Maasai Mara
Angama Mara Dining
Angama Mara draws inspiration from the finest ingredients Kenya has to offer. Beautiful vegetables from the highlands, tropical fruits aplenty 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.
Enjoy a picnic for 2 on the Out of Africa kopje. Angama breakfast or lunch picnics are also a big hit. 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. In the evenings, guests may dine in a lantern-lit forest off a barbecue à la carte menu with the calls of hyenas serenading them as they share stories of their day’s adventures on safari.
After a restful night’s sleep, a knock on the door and a butler discreetly leave fresh orange juice, steaming coffee, and a newly baked something in the lobby. All meals can be enjoyed on the tented suite’s deck, at the lodge, by the pool, or, best of all, a Mara picnic in the shade of a lone tree in the middle of nowhere.
There is even a small separate Kosher kitchen at Angama Mara that can prepare meals for up to 12 guests. This includes crockery, cutlery, cooking utensils, pots and pans, charcoal grill, cooking top, refrigeration, and washing up facilities and is kept locked at all times other than when in use for our kosher guests.
Gluten-free? Vegan? Soymilk, almond milk? No problem. Low sodium, no garlic, Chinese, food allergies, Halaal? At Angama, food preferences are all in a day’s work.
The Shamba
Angama Mara also has a beautiful one-acre kitchen garden, Shamba, where guests can pick their own vegetables and toss their own salads for lunch. The Shamba is a much-loved experience for Angama Mara’s guests. Within easy walking distance of the lodge guests often stop by on their way to or from the Reserve. The shamba keepers welcome guests at the passionfruit arbor which forms the entrance and guide them through the 1-acre kitchen garden encouraging them to pick and taste along the way. The layout is reminiscent of snakes and ladders and the shamba keepers share the story behind its unique design. This is no ordinary vegetable patch.
The lodge offers private shamba-to-table lunches in the garden under towering shady moth trees. Guests are free to pick their own ingredients which are then washed and readied for the freshest salads imaginable. Butlers prepare a wicker basket filled with loaves of bread, local cheese, and chilled rosé wine to accompany the salads. Guests are left to while away the afternoon. Taking in sweeping views of the Mara below whilst watching the butterflies dance through the garden.
Angama Foundation
Each guest at Angama Mara contributes a donation to the Angama Foundation, a separate entity that has been set up to support the communities that neighbor the lodge and the wildlife and land that surround it. The Foundation is active in three fields of work: Education, Healthcare, and Conservation. Don’t hesitate to ask us for more information on the amazing community work the Angama Foundation is doing.
Please note Angama Mara will be closed for an extra dose of TLC from 21st April — 20th May 2024.
Angama Mara Main Camp Accommodation Rates
Tented Suite Rate Per Night | Per Adult | Per Child Under 12 | Per Child 13 – 17 |
1st July – 30th September 2023 | $2275 | 50% (6 years +) | 75% (6 years +) |
1st October – 22nd December 2023 | $1490 | Free* (0 – 12 years) | 50% (0 – 12 years) |
23rd December 2023 until 4th January 2024 | $2275 | 50% (6 years +) | 75% (6 years +) |
5th January – 31st May 2024 | $1 650 | Free* (0 – 12 years) | 50% (0 – 12 years) |
1st June – 30th September 2024 | $2450 | 50% (6 years +) | 75% (6 years +) |
1st October – 22nd December 2024 | $1 650 | Free* (0 – 12 years) | 50% (0 – 12 years) |
23rd December 2024 until 4th January 2025 | $2450 | 50% (6 years +) | 75% (6 years +) |
*The first two children in any one reservation or combination of reservations of guests traveling together will stay free of charge between 0-12 in Standard Season. Any additional children of this age will be charged 25% of the rate.
No children under 6 in peak season.
The first two single tents on any booking, or a combination of reservations for guests traveling together, will not be charged a single supplement.
A 50% single supplement will be charged on all single tents thereafter.
Angama Mara Rates include:
All guided safaris into the Mara Triangle.
Guided walking safaris on the Rift Valley escarpment
All meals and drinks (excluding French Champagne & Reserve wines)
Laundry service & WiFi
All on-property guest experiences
Transfers to and from Angama Mara Airfield or Kichwa Tembo Airstrip.
Emergency medical evacuation insurance
Childminding (from 6 pm to 10 pm)
VAT and all levies
Angama Safari Camp Accommodation Rates
Angama Safari Camp Rate Per Night | 1 – 4 guests | Additional Guests |
1st July – 30th September 2023 | US$10 750 | US$1400 |
1st October – 22nd December 2023 | US$6 950 | US$750 |
23rd December 2023 until 4th January 2024 | US$10 750 | US$1400 |
5th January – 31st May 2024 | US$7 295 | US$790 |
1st June – 30th September 2024 | US$11 285 | US$1470 |
1st October – 22nd December 2024 | US$7 295 | US$790 |
23rd December 2024 until 4th January 2025 | US$11 285 | US$1470 |
Children under 12 pay 50%. From 13 – 17, they pay 75% of the adult rate.
Children’s rates only applicable for guest 5-8, otherwise Camp rate will apply for any guest between 1-4.
Angama Safari Camp Rates include:
Two private safari vehicles and guided safaris in the Mara Triangle
Walking safaris on the Oloololo Escarpment
All meals and drinks (excluding French Champagne & Reserve wines)
Laundry service (36 hours)
All on-property guest experiences
Transfers to and from Serena Airstrip, Angama Mara Airfield or Kichwa Tembo Airstrip
Emergency medical evacuation insurance
Childminding (from 6 pm to 10 pm)
VAT, all levies and camping fees
All Rates Exclude
Maasai Mara Park Fees and Angama Foundation contribution
All additional guest experiences as otherwise listed
Safari Shop purchases & in-tent massages
Air and road transfers from elsewhere within the Maasai Mara
Gratuities
A minimum of a 3-night stay between 23rd December and 4th January at both camps
A minimum of a 3-night stay at Angama Safari Camp is required year-round
Angama Mara Accommodation Special Offers
Stay 4 nights, Pay for 3 nights.
Plus no single supplement on the first two tents of any one reservation.
Valid between 5th January – 30th June, 1st September – 22nd December 2023 & 2024.
Signature Stay
The quintessential Angama experience, with ample time to enjoy the Masai Mara’s non-stop wildlife viewing and all of the experiences on offer. From bush BBQs and Maasai beading to full-day safaris with picnic lunches and a hot-air balloon safari.
Rates per guest sharing:
The month of September 2023: $11 575
1st October – 22nd December 2023: $6 565
23rd December 2023 until 4th January 2024: $14 415
5th January – 31st May 2024: $6 705
1st – 30th June 2024: $11 750
1st July – 31st August 2024: $14 790
The month of September 2024: $11 750
1st October – 22nd December 2024: $6 705
23rd December 2024 until 4th January 2025: $14 790
Includes accommodation, a hot-air balloon safari, a private vehicle*, and an in-tent complimentary massage. All standard activities are also included.
In 2023, Mara park fees and Angama Foundation contribution are included. In 2024, they are in addition to the above rates.
*During Peak Season, a private vehicle is subject to availability
Traveling Totos Family Safari
Reconnect as a family on the open African plains. Enjoy the Masai Mara’s extraordinary wildlife. And avoid the crowds.
The traveling totos family safari package is based on 2 x adults and 2 x children under the age of 12 staying for 4 nights.
$9 260 per family sharing in 2023
$10 220 per family sharing in 2024
Valid for travel:
1st October – 22nd December 2023
5th January – 31st May 2024
1st October – 22nd December 2024
Includes:
Accommodation, a private safari vehicle, a 1-hr family photo shoot
Excludes:
International and local flights, Maasai Mara Park Fees, and Angama Foundation contribution
Celebrations
Weddings, Vow renewals, anniversaries, bar mitzvah, engagements, honeymoons, and milestone birthdays – there is much to celebrate in life, and why not whilst on safari? The Angama Mara team loves planning a celebration whatever the occasion. And they do it in Maasai style: with beautiful bead work, dancing warriors, extraordinary backdrops, and of course the warmest Kenyan service and hospitality.
Angama Mara Honeymooners
Brides stay for four nights and only pay for two nights on a honeymoon safari with us. Catch your breath after your wedding by slowing down on your honeymoon. And breathe in Africa’s beauty from 1 000ft above the Maasai Mara.
Cost per honeymoon couple for the 4-nights in 2023: $8 940
Cost per honeymoon couple for the 4-nights in 2024: $9 900
Valid for travel:
1st October 2023 – 22nd December 2023
5th January – 31st May 2024
1st October – 22nd December 2024
Includes:
A private safari vehicle, a one-hour photo shoot, and a Maasai blessing. Should you like to wear traditional Maasai wedding clothing these may be ordered prior to arrival at an additional cost.
Excludes:
International and regional flights, Mara Park Fees, and Angama Foundation contribution.
Maasai Blessings
Couples either wanting to renew their vows or celebrate a milestone wedding anniversary can do this at an authentic, low-key sunset celebration in the Maasai boma or lovely Shamba. The husband is presented with a Maasai shirt and beaded walking stick and the wife with a traditional beaded skirt, top and beautiful Maasai jewelry. They arrive in the boma accompanied by singing and dancing maidens and warriors. After a performance by the warriors, the elders will bless the couple.
*Please note all bespoke Maasai beaded items are for the guests’ account. See Angama Mara wedding for more information on Maasai Blessings and Classic Wedding options.
An Out Of Africa Engagement
What could be more romantic than a proposal right on the site of the movie about one of the greatest love stories set in colonial Kenya? Out of Africa was filmed here and the little hill featured on the movie’s poster is where the lodge team sets up a champagne picnic on its crest, with sweeping views of the Mara below. With such a setting they have yet to have a refusal!
Special Birthdays
Whether it’s just a couple traveling together celebrating a milestone birthday. Or a multi-generational gathering of a family clan. The lodge loves to throw a party. These take place in the Maasai Boma at sunset, accompanied by toasts with traditional Kenyan ‘Dawa’ cocktails. The birthday person is given a beautifully beaded Maasai gift. A warrior performance is dedicated to the birthday celebrant. For a more discreet celebration, guests can be surprised and spoiled by a champagne picnic for two on the crest of the Out of Africa kopje.
Bar Mitzvahs Maasai Style
During their Bar Mitzvah year, young Jewish men can celebrate their coming of age in the heart of Maasailand. The day starts with a wilderness walk in the company of a Maasai naturalist. He will share his story about his Maasai journey from boyhood to manhood and teach him how to throw a spear and shoot with a bow and arrow. After a hearty breakfast, a couple of quiet hours are spent with a Maasai elder in a traditional manyatta (homestead) in the Shamba. He will share his wisdom about this transition. The day is capped in an evening ceremony. When the young man is the guest of honor in the boma and dances with the Maasai warriors. Following this, he is blessed by the elders. And presented with a special gift to celebrate his coming of age and commemorate this special day.
*Bat Mitzvah celebrations are also available.
Costs & Logistics
Please plan well ahead to accommodate any custom-beaded items. The cost of bespoke items, clothing, or jewelry is available upon request
Angama Mara does not charge a fee for hosting celebrations (excluding Bar Mitzvahs). Nor for the dancing performance by fifteen Maasai warriors in the boma
The services of priests, elders, additional warriors, or other professionals as required are available upon request
Please inquire about the cost of hosting a Bar Mitzvah
Each camp at Angama Mara accommodates up to 30 guests, perfect for larger groups, with accommodation for up to 60 guests.
Group rates are available throughout the year (from 10 x tents for 3 nights). Check with us now.
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