Charukesi Ramadurai

Charukesi Ramadurai is a freelance journalist writing on travel, wildlife, sustainability and conservation for various publications around the world, including National Geographic, BBC Travel and Nikkei Asia. She has been to 61 countries across six continents so far, and has her sights firmly set on Antarctica for the near future. Her travel experiences range from playing pied piper to 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. Find her travel photos and tweets at @charukesi.