About Charukesi
Charukesi Ramadurai is a freelance journalist writing on travel, wildlife, sustainability and conservation for various publications around the world. She has been to 62 countries across six continents so far and aims to visit at least 100 in her lifetime. Her travel experiences range from playing pied piper for curious children in rural India to playing the alphorn in the Swiss Alps; from hanging on for dear life on a microlight flight over Victoria Falls in Zambia to learning to kayak on the Shannon river in Ireland; from rising at the crack of dawn to go bird-watching at the Ballestas Islands in Peru to cooing over endangered baby green turtles at the Ras al-Jinz Turtle Reserve in Oman.