Inside Uganda's 'cheaper' safari park where elephants go snorkelling

Our riverboat guide looks at me earnestly. ‘Did you know that hippos are actually really bad swimmers but elephants can swim very well?’ asks Clinton.

We are on a small boat in Murchison Falls game park on the Victoria Nile River in north-west Uganda. There are hippo eyes all around our boat, their crinkly eyebrows peeping above the water.

‘They look like they’re swimming but their feet are on the muddy ground flats,’ he says.

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