Matt & Maddy

Kittengela Glass

 Jambo Everyone,
This is a very strange site, your script goes where it wants as well as the pictures.

Today I am taking you to Kittengela Glass factory, we spent an hour and a half and I could have stayed another 2 hours. This was fasinating.

How these men stand the heat is beyond me, I was standing right on the edge of the entrance and the heat was intense. Each piece is hand made and no two alike. What you think is going to be a vase or bowl ends up to be a plate or platter.

The House for the Kilns

 Kittengela has been there 30 years and they ship all over the world and have visitors from all over the world also. The kilns are fed with used oil and have been going for 25 years and are never let to cool. It is owned by a husband & wife from Germany.

Forming the bottom of the bowl or as it turns out to be a plate

 Everything has glass in it as you see the walls, sidewalks, doors, floors, benches, you name it and you will see glass imbedded in it. The glass ware and vases are very heavy and they say you can drop one and it won't break. I didn't try it. They also make jewelry , yes I bought a pair of earring!

The finished product of the above .

They also have cool huts that are for vendors and evidently they rent the huts to them and sell there products for them. All of the workers stay right there and there is a house that they all live in. 

A wall of one of the buildings, it is all glass inlayed.

A whole floor of glass.

 I have many more pictures but can't possibly put them on here.

I will probably never go back to Kittengela as my back has still not recovered and my liver still hasn't found out where it belongs, from the drive there which is approximately 4 miles. I felt like an eternity and took us 20 min. to reach Kittengela. What I finally got a picture of because I wasn't holding on for dear life was the best part of the road. At certain points there  really is no road and the holes are about 2 - 4 feet deep and out of them are boulders that jar your teeth. I don't know why the bottom of the car wasn't ripped out I could here the muffler and tail pipe rattling and banging.

It was all worth it because it was truly something you will never see in US. Even in Italy is was not this beautiful with all the surroundings. Oh yes, also on the way we saw about 8 zebra and a baby, that really made it worthwhile, unfortunately couldn't get a picture.


                                                           Have a Blessed Easter,
                                           
                                                                  Kwaheri
             

 

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