ALL ARTICLES IN ARCHIVE:
The Nine Lives Of The Cottar’s Safari Cat
21 Jan 2020 - Sue van Winsen Why go on a game drive when the most handsome of felines can be found in the mess tent? From brushing shoulders with the rich and famous to tales of fierce encounters with wildlife, we couldn’t help but fall in love with Piki Piki, Cottar’s safari cat
Why Spinning Tops Don’t Get Dizzy
20 Dec 2016 - Marina Greaves Experience Angama Mara through the eyes of Marina Greaves, one half of the duo who created Angama Mara's signature brand
A Tale of Three Graves
25 Oct 2016 - Nicky Fitzgerald Inspired by a chance meeting with a remarkable traveller, Nicky Fitzgerald set out to find the tale of three graves which weaves together the Out of Africa story with Angama Mara
Behind the Closed Doors of Segera’s Explorer Lounge
14 Apr 2016 - Michael Boyd Mike Boyd steps into a past of snug leather sofas, old libraries and worn leather, as he explores the Explorer Lounge at Segera Retreat
Celebrating 30 Years of OoA
29 Feb 2016 - Nicky FitzgeraldThirty years ago Sydney Pollack’s beautiful movie Out of Africa swept the boards at the 1986 Oscars with 11 nominations and 7 wins: Best Picture, Cinematography, Sound, Music (Original Score), Writing, Art Direction and, of course, Directing. We love this great Kenyan story, part of which was filmed on Angama Mara’s property, and to celebrate…
That Yellow Plane
16 Dec 2015 - Jens Kozany Jens Kozany tells the story of G-AAMY, the Gipsy Moth biplane so famously filmed in Out of Africa, and now resident of Segera Retreat in Laikipia
“We have a lodge in Africa”
27 Oct 2015 - Kate Fitzgerald Boyd The world fell in love with Karen Blixen's opening line, "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills". For those who identify with Out of Africa, this wild continent is the heart of every safari and many of the film's most memorable scenes were shot overlooking the Maasai Mara at Angama...
The Leaning Giraffe
14 Oct 2015 - CHRIS GOUGH PALMER The brand name needed to be reflected in the logo: to tell the story of a lodge being ‘suspended in mid-air’; to underpin the historical importance and the world’s curiosity with Africa; the spirit of the place, its people, flora and fauna.... Chris Gough Palmer shares his story about the creation of the Angama brand
Musings on African Film … Part One
1 Apr 2015 - Michael Boyd Mike Boyd is a film fundi and assisted the Angama Mara team in curating our DVD library of over 100 African films, in this three part series he shares some of his favourite films created on African soil
Karen Blixen: Out of Africa and into the heart of Copenhagen
31 Dec 2014 - Nestor E. Lara BaezaIn the movie, Out of Africa, Meryl Streep perfectly portrays how Africa, and Kenya in particular, changes Karen Blixen over the seventeen years that she lived there. Blixen, so inherently and elegantly Danish on her arrival in Africa was transformed from her European aristocratic roots into the beautiful African memsahib, who embraced everything that Africa…