Turned out some of the script wasn't fully translated, so in true animation production drama, I needed to rerecord some of the voices the day before we left Nyungwe. Luckily the right people were around. My lead female voice actress Sharon was down with a stomach bug all week but kindly agreed to finish off the chimp part.
Speaking of Chimps, N thought it was about time I saw some and arranged for us to join a small group of (paying) tourists on a chimp trek, Tues 28th. I didn't mentally prepare what was in store - following a group of semi-habituated chimpanzees up and down the steep forest hills in dense vegetation!! Left at 5.30am and returned after 2pm. Could only get one notable pic of a female but saw 3 others very clearly through binoculars, one being a 3 yr old toddler who was so cute. Shame I didn't take J's mega lens. Got pic of a chimp bed tho. Imagine, they make a new nest in the trees every night out of leaves. Adults can be up to 50kg.
Before we headed back, the traditional village being built near Banda caught N's eye and we popped in to see how its going. When it's finished tourists will be able to camp there and hang out in the King's hut (unfinished house).
Thursday was my birthday so after a whole day of rain and sound recording stress we all clambered into a project vehicle and had dinner by the lake at my favourite viewing point of Lake Kivu- Cafe L'oest by Nyamasheke. (J had taken me there the day we went to check out his boat but my camera had run out of battery and I never got a pic of the pineapple wine bottle!)
The guys sang Happy Bday in ikinyarwanda (same tune) and we ate Sambasa (tiny fried fish), Aka benze, fried plantain and I had a whole Talapia fish to myself. Yum!
I'll give myself 2 weeks to finish the cartoon when I return to London and then it'll have to brave the local postal service! N says she's had no problems receiving things in the past. She'll have to pick it up from Kigali though.
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