Today was the turn of overland campsites and their ablutions. The same principle applies as with the 4x4 sites whereby every two vehicles have a set of ablutions.
This is probably the most overgrown area of the site at the moment with primary vegetation in some places regenerated to over 6ft. So yes, truly working in the bush today. Getting the ablutions marked turned out to be the easy part and sorting out the truck parkings and roads the "find your way through the bush".
Now marking out the truck parking at the two sites and their turning circles was definitely a bit of a challenge but it certainly helped that I used to drive overland trucks and could work out the best lay of each with the minimum "work" by the drivers and/or risk taking out rock outcrops or trees when arriving or leaving. Anyway, mission was accomplished and the sites look good. The camping areas also look very promising with most, if not all, the camping areas will be on different levels through terracing. There is one stunning site I suspect the crew will fight to get into first but I won't let the cat out of the bag now.
This afternoon, our EIA consultant also visited the site to see how the marking out is going and comment on locations etc. He was impressed how we'd used the natural lay of the land although he was probably a little less impressed with the pace Andy and I took him through and around te site ( a quick 1 km), we found him lagging behind at times. Advice for anyone visiting us during the next couple of months - don't wear fancy little city shoes :-)).
The Kinyarwanda and English exchange lessons are also going very well with the lads greeting me in proper English in the morning and me greeting them in Kinyarwandan. Its great fun working with them and we're moving onto bird names in Kinyarwandan and English too now.
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