This morning a very kind colleague took me along with her to the Kitengela glass factory, about an hour outside of Nairobi. She had told me you could see them blowing the glass there, and then you can buy glass stuff. And I have to admit, I thought, "big deal, we have glass blowing at the Appalachian Center for Crafts not far outside my hometown." So I was expecting shelves and shelves of vases and other glassware, which were indeed there:
But she didn't warn me at all that this place is like a fairytale hobbit-land with art!
Also it reminded me a bit of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.
And to top it all off there was beautiful scenery.
Excellent field trip! You can see more pictures
here.
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