“Suddenly her nose came out of the water and her gaping jaws were only about five metres away from me.
“Luckily the driver realised we were too close and sped away but the mum didn’t give up – she was so fast.

“We finally got away but at one point she would only have been about two or three metres from being caught.”

“Once we’d got on to dry land I couldn’t believe I’d managed to get such good pictures.”

Rob and Jessica, from Farnham, Surrey, had been on a two-month trip through Africa and had previously nearly been attacked by elephants in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
See angry hippo target boatload of terrified tourists on safari cruise
See angry hippo target boatload of terrified tourists on safari cruise
See angry hippo target boatload of terrified tourists on safari cruise