Sarit Reizin, Author at In the Know Traveler

Chameleon Africa

Posted by Sarit Reizin | Oct 17, 2008 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Namibia |

Africa is a chameleon. I am only a day’s drive away from Etosha – my most recent never-ending fountain of wildlife, and it’s like I’ve landed on a different planet with its own magnificent and diverse...

Five-Hour Photo

Posted by Sarit Reizin | Oct 13, 2008 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Namibia |

She lay in wait and so did I. How famished she must have been, if only watching her hunt I’ve become so hungry I’ve risked getting out of the car, fetching my gasoline camping stove, and cooking up a hearty meal...

About One Little Himba

Posted by Sarit Reizin | Oct 8, 2008 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Namibia |

“Ask her what her favorite thing to do is,” I said. Jaco asked, and the little fifteen year-old Himba replied that it was cooking. She looked so precious, healthy, happy, but then also so alien to me. She was naked...

The Real Africa

Posted by Sarit Reizin | Oct 3, 2008 | ITKT Blogs |

It finally feels like I am in real Africa. Not a white person in sight and many prospects for the elusive desert elephants that should be lurking around this region. A few kilometers north of Twyfelfontein (Doubtful Spring) we...

Click n’ Clack

Posted by Sarit Reizin | Sep 29, 2008 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Namibia |

I’ve been lucky recently with good guides. It is especially pleasant when you don’t want or need one, but they are being forced on you by regulations of the place you are visiting, like in Namibia’s Brandberg...

Fury Families

Posted by Sarit Reizin | Sep 26, 2008 | Africa, ITKT Blogs |

Africa’s furry and feathered ones remind me how good (and annoying) it feels to have mom watch over your every step, ready to burst into action when needed and to wreck havoc if she suspects her baby is in any danger. When...

A Desert in Bloom

Posted by Sarit Reizin | Sep 22, 2008 | Africa, ITKT Blogs |

"Desert in bloom"? must sound perfectly surreal; well, it looks perfectly surreal as well. From afar, flat barren meadows look like someone has been painting in the mountains and spilled a whole bucket of paint onto...