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Guides for a Day (or Two) 5 May 2023 Often trading photography tips with the guides for wildlife knowledge, the Photographic Studio recently tagged along on their annual training program By Sammy Njoroge

Above: Your guide makes sure you're always in the heart of the action

A Great Guiding Team, Built to Last 23 November 2022 Being a safari guide is not just about passing an exam — it's about weaving magical stories, having each other's back and spending hours appreciating everything the Mara has to offer By Sammy Komu

What A Year It Has Been Here In The Mara 24 December 2018 The Angama guides share their best wildlife sightings for 2018: wild dog, a lizard kill, brave mothers, foolish mothers, crossing dramas, feeding frenzies, narrow escapes, an ostrich getting the better of a leopard, and yes, even a pangolin By Nicky Fitzgerald

Hello Chem Chem 23 October 2018 Angama Mara guide, Lemaalo, shares his delightful account of visiting Chem Chem Lodge in Northern Tanzania By Ericson Lemaalo

A Matter of Time 19 June 2018 Al Kilpin returns for the fourth year running to train our guides in the fine art of slow safaris By Alastair Kilpin

A Year of Living Dangerously 26 December 2017 Pangolins, porcupines and pitched battles – enjoy the most extraordinary sightings of the year, as told by Angama Mara's guides By Nicky Fitzgerald

A Letter from Esau 8 August 2017 From looking for lions and changing tyres to lunching at the hippo pool and learning about different animal horns, here is a letter from Esau about his day spent with Angama guides in the Mara Triangle By Nicky Fitzgerald

Connecting the Dots 27 June 2017 Alastair Kilpin shares some highlights from this year’s guide training where the team visited the nearby Lake Victoria and Kakamega forest as well as undertaking some deeper exploration on home soil By Alastair Kilpin

A Maasai Naturalist Discovers the Land of the Lemurs – Part II 20 June 2017 From Giraffe Weevils and Giant Stick Insects to Dancing Lemurs and Spiny-tailed Iguanas, Maasai Naturalist Fred Ole Sinoni continues the guide exchange program and explores wild Madagascar By Fred Ole Sinoni

The enormous talons of the Martial eagle

Named for the Roman God of War: Africa’s Martial Eagle 17 April 2017 Meet Stratton Hatfield as he introduces us to the majesty of Africa's largest eagle, which can be spotted soaring in front of Angama Mara... By Stratton Hatfield

Migrating Raptors and Cisticolas by the Baker’s Dozen 4 April 2017 Meet Angama Mara's Birder In Residence, Adam Scott Kennedy, as he recounts his first month following the raptors on the edge of the Great Rift Valley... By Adam Scott Kennedy

As Proud As A Peacock, As Happy As A Lark 28 February 2017 One lovely October day last year our guides hosted a group of Emurutoto Primary School children on a game drive/conservation lesson into the Mara Triangle, and we received these letters a few days later By Nicky Fitzgerald

Murder, Mayhem And A Flying Buffalo 27 December 2016 What a year of wildlife it has been! Read each one of Angama Mara's guides' top sighting for 2016 By Nicky Fitzgerald

Funga Macho Yako 31 May 2016 Alastair Kilpin returns to Angama Mara after a year long absence to spend time reflecting and reviewing the past year with the Guiding Team, specifically looking at lessons learnt at the guest coalface By Alastair Kilpin

Safari Camp Sleep-out

Safari Camp Sleep-out

Safari Camp Sleep-out

Safari Camp Sleep-out

Safari Camp Sleep-out

Safari Camp Sleep-out

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