In addition to Angama Mara and Angama Safari Camp in the Maasai Mara, Angama is expanding with a second location in Kenya. Angama secured exclusive access to Kimana Sanctuary - a 5,700-hectare game-filled oasis and, most importantly, a critical wildlife corridor linking the ecosystems of Amboseli National Park, Chyulu Hills and Tsavo West National Park.To bring this project to life, Angama is partnering with the Big Life Foundation, which will continue to manage this sanctuary on behalf of the 844 Maasai families who have owned this land through generations.

Lease fees paid by Angama for the land will flow to these families, ensuring that the all-important corridor used by the region's famous big tusker elephants and other wildlife for centuries will continue to be protected.

The ten tented suites - including two sets of interconnecting family units - are all designed to maximize the famous views of Mount Kilimanjaro. Angama Amboseli Camp is on track to welcome its first guests in November 2023.

Access to the sanctuary is by plane to Kimana Airfield. A drive to the Chyulu Hills or Amboseli takes about 1.5 hours.

Kimana was established in 1996 as the first community-owned wildlife sanctuary in Kenya. Kimana not only has a very high density of diverse widlife, but also an astonishing biodiversity with fever tree forests, savannah and marsh, providing vital year-round access to water. Eland, reedbuck, warthogs in their hundreds, along with giraffe, zebra and wildebeest and even the elusive leopard, cheetah and serval can be seen.

Amboseli itself became a wildlife sanctuary in the 1940s and was declared a national park in 1974. Amboseli can be very dry and dusty, but the permanent swamps and lakes sustain big numbers of elephants and plains game. It is probably here, at Amboseli National Park, where you encounter Africa's largest and most beautiful big-tusked elephants. Largely untouched by poaching, the park supports about 1500 of these great animals. A photo of an elephant with snow-capped Kilimanjaro in the background is the number-one subject for most vistors and worth the entire trip.

The elephants are no doubt the kings of the park and they are available in big numbers. These elephants can be seen and photographed easily because of the flat terrain. The elephants in Amboseli, which are also considered to be among the biggest in the country, mainly enjoy the swamps, in which they get cool waters that they share with hippos that hide beneath the papyrus.

A large resident population of wildbeest together with Burchell’s zebra, also have a home in the park. Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelles, bufallo, warthog, black rhino, Maasai giraffe, impala, waterbuck and dik-dik, are also among the grass-eaters there. Baboons and vervet monkeys live in the scarce woodlands.

Lions, spotted hyenas, wild cats, jackals and caracals represent the carnivores. Cheetah and leopards are not so common. As far as birds are concerned, there exists more than 400 species. The park gathers a big population of water birds after the rains.

Game drives in Kimana Sanctuary or to Amboseli National Park. Walking Safaris in the sanctuary.

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