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Suspended in mid air

Could there be a more lovely setting for a pre-safari breakfast than on the edge of the Great Rift Valley? Guests watch hot air balloons floating dreamily by while enjoying a cappuccino brewed from Kenyan coffee beans.

A great view, warm service and delicious food – what could be better? Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served on the decks that wrap across the front of Angama’s guest areas. And if you look down into the reserve, 300 metres below, you will see graceful giraffe journeying across the open grasslands, a family of elephant slowly making their daily trek from the forests that surround us to the lush marshes below, and, of course, there is that family of buffalo, 100 strong, who on a good day might move from one side of the road to another. Look out, not up, and there are always raptors sailing past at eye level, almost close enough to touch.

But the food has to match the setting and we have chosen five of our best-loved dishes to share with you in this chapter. The Best Burger in the Mara is our guests’ favourite. Why is it the best? Probably because we are the only lodge that serves them every single day of the year. That’s how much our guests love them. Who would have thought?