We drove out to Malkerns yesterday.  We saw more fun bushes with flowers on them and also watched one of the guys at the Swazi Candle Factory make an elephant from warm wax in less than 5 minutes!  Wow!  It was amazing!  We also visited the storeroom there and they shared with us how they make the candles.  Their animal candles are all made in Malkerns in the Swazi Candle Factory there, but they said there is also a factory in Matsapha, that makes all the square, rectangular and cylindrical candles. We will have to look for that factory too! I LOVE the candles they make!!  

These pretty trees are all over! I LOVE these flowers!

It is so interesting to me that so many trees have flowers on them here!

These flowers were by Sister Sylvia Dlamini's home on Saturday. SO pretty!

We pass this "council tree" everyday and I finally got a picture.

These pretty flowers look a little like lilacs, but they have no smell...

We stopped at "House on Fire".  I have taken photos before

but didn't have one of this fun countertop with all different colorful tiles.l 

I have also never taken a photo of the LED candles in the shop. 

You can see the pretty designs so well with them all lit up

 

We watched this worker make an elephant shaped candle in no more than 5 minutes!  It was amazing to see him take a ball of soft white wax then a square of the designed wax on the bottom and the top and bring them together, shaping them into an elephant.  After covering the ball, and making the head, ears and trunk, he cut slits and formed the legs. It was SO cool! It is then placed in cold water to harden, then a wick is placed in the top and last it is dipped in hot wax to make it smooth and shiny. Ü