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…

The U.S is against the construction of a road through the Serengeti game reserve. US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says they have raised their concerns with the Tanzanian authorities who promised to address the issue.

Environmentalists say the new road could affect the famed wildebeest migration and threaten endangered species. Tanzania however says the road will spur development. What are your thoughts on this issue….please weigh in!

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The scene Kruger National Park, in South Africa. An Impala was video taped skillfully escaping two cheetahs – by taking a leap of faith into a carload of tourists on safari.

The terrified animal was seconds away from becoming the cheetahs dinner when it saw the window, and jumped for the opportunity. This dramatic video was shot using an iPhone by 20 year old  Samantha Pittendrigh, who was on holiday with her family.

Alright, my first question when I heard about this story was who goes on safari and leaves their window open. It is winter in South Africa in June/July so one can not say that it what too hot, and there was no air conditioning in the car.

Then they say that the impala was lucky and managed to find its way through the window, what if that is exactly what it was planning to do? It saw an opening and it went straight for it the same way any of us would do.

So you pay for your safari, then you go on safari but whilst on safari the strangest thing happens to you. A giraffe starts chasing your open top jeep. I don’t know about you but the last animal I would have been scared off before going on safari would have been a giraffe. A lion definitely, a leopard, a buffalo, a rhino maybe even a hippo… but a giraffe?? Never!!

Upon further investigation, it turns out that giraffes can actually be very dangerous especially when they are hormonal like the one in the video below. It chased this jeep for over 5 km, I have no idea what the plan was since it is a herbivore. But hey with the way the climate is changing these days you never know what this giraffe could be able to do to you. So yes, the best thing to do would be to ruuuuuun for dear life or as in this video drive until you start to run out of road. This happened in South Africa btw.

At which point you can start banging on the side or the jeep and making ridiculous amounts of noise hoping that this will scare away your stalker. As Anthony the weatherman at a local news station said in response to this video ‘Hey you get what you pay for!’. I think he is dead on, who wants to hear a story about being chased up a tree by a lion or cheetah. Been there done that got the t-shirt. Try something new and funky like a 15 foot tall super long stride taking hormonal giraffe. Now THAT is a safari story!