Set your alarm for this once in a lifetime experience on Lake Victoria. As the sun rises and casts its pinky-orange glow across the grey-blue lake, motor gently between the hippos, birds and local fishing boats.

Weave between the sail boats and nets of the fishermen, perhaps stopping to view their fresh daily catch, or joining them on the banks at one of the many local markets and tiny fishing villages that line the lake. Let your guide point out many of the 250 different bird species around the lake – from kingfishers to fish eagles to cranes – whilst you turn at each hippo bark to watch one flap her ears dismissively before descending out of sight into the peace of the lake.

Also available as a two or three hour tour