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Back to the Kalahari Desert

by Sarit Reizin | Oct 21, 2008 | Africa, Botswana, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

I’m back to the Kalahari Desert, now in Botswana, trying to remind myself that my feelings about authoritarian governments and regimes are not to be confused with my feelings about Africa. Travel is harder here. The...

A Desert in Bloom

by Sarit Reizin | Sep 22, 2008 | Africa, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

"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...

Living Desert

by Sarit Reizin | Sep 5, 2008 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, South Africa | 0 |

In a seemingly dead place, barren of any signs of life, only by reading the “Bushman’s newspaper” – tracks in the sand, he found them all and then showed to us on an outstretched hand. I’ve learned...

Sandboarding Epiphany in Chile

by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo | Jul 26, 2008 | Adventure, Chile, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

Sitting at the top of a sand dune, with board attached to my feet, wind and sand pelting my face, looking out at the alien terrain reminiscent of Star Wars, is when I finally realized how damn lucky I am. Maybe it was the...