Charged by a Hippo

Hippos are the most dangerous animals in Africa in terms of the number of humans they kll every year. We decided to ho out in our boats to have a quick look at them one suset, yesterday.

We hung around for about half an hour or so, just wandering around. Then suddenly one hippo who has been relatively calm decided to charge at us. It bellowed and started to move towards us, and our polers started to get a bit frantic and poled our boats into the safety of the beds of reeds. It was pretty hairy for a while, and in the end we raced back to camp.