Day 53, 2011/06/23 Eldoret
A quick compilation of an itinerary and we are off to town to find an Internet cafe. After managing to send off all the additional info, it is off to a clothing factory. The factory is owned by the same family that owns the campsite. It is family run business, which employes over 1500 people. And wow, what a place. They make gurseys for schools. They are woolen gurseys, and make for a wide selection of schools. The factory has some really old machinery, some dating back to 1958! Yeah, and since spares are hard to come by, there is a whole engineering section where, there are fitter and turners with their laves. They can fix almost anything apparently. Well it can be see by the fact these old machines are still up and running and producing output. In addition to the gurseys, they also produce blankets from the off cuts. It is extremely impressive that, even in this day and age of Chinese production that, these factories are still able to survive.
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