4 guests left this morning for a walk, not 10 minutes into it they encountered a hippo right in front of them, not 2 meters away. Luckily our ZAWA guide carries a gun and is licenced to use it as and when its necessary, this he competently did scaring the bananas out of me. 10 tense minutes later the guide in landcruiser who had gone to check things out brought back our guests who were chatting away like sociable weavers at a luncheon. All is well. They are still looking for the startled hippo who is around camp somewhere...
Let me explain why all could have gone really bad. Hippos are responsible for taking the most human life in parks. They are large and dangerous with huge teeth that can chomp a person or a boat in half...you do not want to have any kind of liaisons with them anywhere.
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