Angama Amboseli sits within a fever tree forest in the Kimana Sanctuary, with Mount Kilimanjaro rising directly behind the lodge. Ten tented suites, including two interconnecting family units, open onto private decks with Angama’s signature rocking chairs. The architecture blends canvas, concrete, and rattan, with a raised rim flow pool that includes a drinking trough below it for the elephants that visit as often as the guests.
The lodge sits at the pinch point, the narrowest remaining section of a migratory corridor connecting Amboseli to the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo West, just 85 meters wide and supported by the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Angama holds exclusive traversing rights across the sanctuary, keeping vehicle numbers low and producing close, uncrowded encounters with some of Africa’s last super tuskers.
Kimana Sanctuary opened to guests in November 2023 as Kenya’s first community owned conservancy, established and still owned by 844 Maasai families. Big Life Foundation has managed the sanctuary since 2018, and guests can visit the foundation’s headquarters to see its anti-poaching and conservation work firsthand.