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title: "Stone walls and a jacuzzi on every deck: Alama Camp Mara"
slug: "stone-walls-and-a-jacuzzi-on-every-deck"
language: "en"
date: "2026-11-13T17:38:41.100Z"
updated: "2026-11-13T17:38:41.000Z"
description: "Alama Camp Mara is a ten-tent boutique camp on a brook above the Mara plains, with stone-walled tents and a jacuzzi on every private deck."
canonical: "https://alamacampmara.slopit.io/stone-walls-and-a-jacuzzi-on-every-deck/"
tags: ["Masai Mara", "Kenya", "Safari"]
---

*Alama* is Swahili for "a mark", and Alama Camp Mara is built to leave one. It is a small boutique camp on a brook, looking out over the plains of the Maasai Mara: ten permanent tented rooms rather than fifty, around a pool, a lounge and bar, and a restaurant over the plains.

![A row of stretch tents on the grass](https://alamacampmara.slopit.io/_media/dpxkeuv6.jpg)

## Canvas over local stone

The tents are canvas over walls of sedimentary rock collected nearby. The stone does a practical job: it keeps the tents cool through the heat of the day and holds warmth through the cool Mara nights.

## A jacuzzi on every deck

Every tent opens onto its own private deck facing the plains, and every deck has a jacuzzi, hot or cold. Binoculars sit on the rail, so the view from the water is part of the game viewing. The tents come set up as doubles, triples or a family arrangement, all with the same deck.

![Wooden chairs on a deck at dusk over the plains](https://alamacampmara.slopit.io/_media/drta2wwn.jpg)

## A table that follows the farm

The restaurant looks out over the plains, and its à la carte menus follow what the camp's own farm is growing. The kitchen cooks for any diet — gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan. Between the morning and afternoon game drives there is the pool, with loungers facing the Mara.

![The restaurant with tables set over the plains](https://alamacampmara.slopit.io/_media/5nfb932a.jpg)

## Drives, balloons and one on the house

Guides go out in the morning and afternoon, or for a full day with a packed lunch, tracking the big cats. For a different view, hot-air balloons lift off over the herds at sunrise, weather permitting. Bush breakfasts and dinners are arranged on request, and every stay includes one complimentary sundowner — a cocktail of the guest's choice as the light goes.

## The people guests write about

What reviewers mention most is the staff. They name the manager, the guides, the chef and the porters, and describe a camp that plans each stay around its guests — the drives, the meals and that sundowner.

![The camp team with guests outside the lodge](https://alamacampmara.slopit.io/_media/iskr9ybu.jpg)