Currently, back to my sweet home country for few months to work as a film producer.
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If you’re lazy to read this, just type my full name on Google ’Achdiyatma Sudiro’. If you are curious about my wonderful and adventurous journey you can read all of this.
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I’m doing a Working and Holiday Visa. So it’ll be nice If we can hanging around to explore Australia.
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Hosting mode in my hometown Indonesia: Yes
Hosting mode in Australia: No
Travel Mode: No
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FYI, I'm so sorry but I should tell the truth, I don't want these things to happen again to me. Honestly, I have bad experiences with my first host in Singapore, he did bad things to me (Now, his account already removed by Couchsurfing team).
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That's my mistake because I didn't read carefully his bio and sleeping arrangement. Honestly, I'm not really convenient to stay with him. I'm not interested in a male host who offered me sleeping arrangements to sleep together on the same bed. IM NOT A GAY. I RESPECT LGBT, BUT I'm so sorry I couldn't accept If you just host me to do the same things again. If you did it, I'll directly report your account.
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I’m Adit, 27 years old, a solo traveler from Indonesia. I already left my country since 2017 when I was 25 years old. Gratefully I have the opportunity to explore almost over the world from 40°Cto -40°C.
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I'm ENFP-T personality, a dreamer with a high level of curiosity with the new things, and art junkies.
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In 2017 I start my trip from :
- Indonesia to Singapore by plane
- Singapore to Malaysia by bus
- Malaysia to Ho Chi Minh by plane
- Ho Chi Minh to Cambodia by bus
- Cambodia to Thailand by bus
- Thailand to Laos by bus
- Laos to Hanoi by bus
- Hanoi to China by bus & train
- China to Mongolia by bus & train
- Mongolia to Russia by bus & van
- Russia to Mongolia hitchhiked
- Mongolia, Ulan-Ude to Russia Saint Petersburg hitchhiked for 8192km in the winter.
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I did it for 9 months. Actually, all of this trips were out of my plan, I never have a plan to do long travel, I don't have any exact plan where I wanna go next, everything just let it flow.
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- 2018, I’m doing Work n Holiday visa in Australia
- 2019, I’m doing a road trip in Europe afterward continue to Canada and hitchhiked from Canmore, Alberta until Vancouver International Airport n back to Australia.
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I Graduated as a Bachelor of Art with Animation Major in 2015. I worked as a 3D artist for 1 year and 6 months in Geppetto 3D, South Jakarta. I produce some 3D, Visual Effect, Design, and Animation for numerous Tv Commercials in Indonesia, then I quit and studied about IELTS for 3 months, took a real test, got a result then I travel.
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Mission :
- Explore every island, mountain, and countries
- Learn everything from my journey
- Share the kindness
- Do the best for everything
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Philosophy:
- All opportunities are wide open, but not everyone is willing to take it.
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Beside Couchsurfing, I also did volunteer when I visited every country, you can check my profile here:
- http://www.helpx.net/profile.asp?usercode=907882DP
- https://www.workaway.info/workaway-account-en.html
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- My Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/achdiyatma.sudiro
- My Instagram,https://www.instagram.com/achdiyatma/ My Blog, https://achdiyatma.wordpress.com/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

- Because I want to meet many people from around the world, make a connection, talking about everything, like their countries, foods, culture, etc.

- Tell to everyone about my country, accompany them to visit some interesting place in my country, trying our traditional foods, etc.

Interests

- Art (Photography, 3D and Visual Effect, Painting, Handcraft, Hand Drawing, Illustration)

- Adventure (Camping, Hiking, Hitchhiking, Overlanding with car or motorbike)

- Pet (Cat, Lizard, Chameleon, Eagle, Owl)

• arts
• photography
• beaches
• nature
• waterfalls
• video editing
• cooking and baking
• mountain hiking
• visual effects

Music, Movies, and Books

- I love 70's - 90's music, classical, blues, country, such as Alan Jackson, John Denver Skeeter Davis, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly's, Aaron Watson, The Platers, etc)
- I love Animation, Cowboy, Adventure and Drama movies.
- I love everything about art such as fine art, photography, 3D, VFX, post-production, etc
- I love sports magazine (Especially Car and Motorcycle)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have many amazing things that I've done :P

- Almost die in Panther Falls, Jasper - Canada, falling on the slippery cliff but I’m still alive tho🤣.

P.s Do u want to see the panther claw scratch my body? Go n check it on my insta story✌️.

- Hitchhiked on the uncommon route on my last 3 days before my departure in Vancouver. I did it from Canmore - Lake Louise - Jasper - Valemount - Clear Water - Kamloops - Abbotsford - Vancouver

- 8192km hitchhiked, almost half part of Russia. Start from :

Ulan-Ude - Irkutsk - Krasnoyarsk - Novosibirsk - Omsk - Kurgan - Chelyabinsk - Magnitogorsk - Bashkortostan - Ufa - Nabelenezhnye Chelny - Kazan - Tsvilk - Moscow - Tver - Saint Petersburg.

I don't have a tent, I don't have warm shoes nor waterproof. My shoes always getting wet. I only use double socks and covering with plastic,

- Hitchhiked from Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk waiting for 3 hours because I did on a complicated route, but finally, I got 1 one car that took me directly until Irkutsk. He also bought me dinner, and we still keep in touch until now. He shook my hand and said I'm crazy lol.

- Hitchhiked on the last day my visa will be expired from Irkutsk, Russia until Ulaanbaatar on winter with -20°C on 12 hours. Arrived at the border at 23.45 pm, 15 minutes before my visa expired.

- Overlanding from Hai Phong, Northern Vietnam to Southern China and continue to Northern China by bus and train with hard seat and it took 40 hours 35 minutes, and I made 2 new friends, they're Chinese and they can't speak English, we talked each other with translator, and we still keep in touch until now.

When I across from Northern Vietnam to Northern China there was no foreigner passed the border that I took, all the people were local or worker from Vietnam and China, and I had many security checkpoints, it took a long time until they allow me to enter China. Everybody looked at me like I'm an alien, but when they know I'm a solo traveler from Indonesia suddenly I became famous, everybody came to me ask many questions and became friendly

Put this code on your request, If you want to stay with me: "Subidupapap Kwauw Kwauw" Which mean you read my profile before you request

- I stayed overnight alone on Dragon Mountain, Ninh Binh - Northern Vietnam.

It's not commonplace for tourist or local to stay a night. At 18.00 many locals n foreigners were leaving this dragon lying mountain but when I lying my body on the small pagoda and staring to the sky I saw there're some stars. I was thinking maybe at 7 or 8 pm it's gonna be a lot of stars or Milkyway like I did night photography in Chiang Dao - Northern Thailand, but it was not. The sky's getting black without stars, just big n shiny beautiful moon leaning right in front of me. It was very beautiful but my camera lens couldn't take a picture as I saw with my own eyes.

I took many night photography pictures and suddenly I ran out of battery at 8 pm. It was so cold, I didn't bring my jacket because I didn't have any plan to take night photography. Then I'm going down to find charging place but I was locked, there's a big gate that I couldn't through it. So only me on this Lying Dragon Mountain and I decided to stay overnight there.

I was thinking how can I charge my camera to prepare for the next day, for sunrise and explore another place. I'm looking around n I saw the big cable. I try to follow it until I found an abandoned house, I looked to the inside there's some socket that I can probably use.

This house was locked, and I can't go to the inside.
I've walked around n thinking how to get in. and I saw there's some ventilation. Then I measure my body size is it fit or not to get in, and I also think about how to get out from that house. When I already have good preparation then I went to the inside, and directly I plugged my charger buuuut it's not working. **** it took many efforts to get in but there's no electricity. Then I went out, walking around and thinking about how to get the electricity.

And finally, I found the button to turn it on. I hope it will work. Then I tried again to get in, and yeaaaah it totally works. I can charge all of my devices until full and ready for the next day.

When I'm finished I took some night photography and slept at 01.22 am on the lying dragon mountain. I woke up early at 5 am to see the sunrise and enjoy my beautiful morning with the coffee sachet in my pocket, streaming Indonesian radio and video call with my mom.

I already research that this place will open at 7 am, so I just standing on top and looking down to make sure there is new tourist come to this place. When I already saw some of them heading to the top, then I'm going down.

So everybody in that place didn't suspicious of me and didn't recognize that I stay overnight on that mountain. Finally, everything ran smoothly, I can continue my next trip to another place with good preparation

- Hitchhiked from Bangkok to Chiang Mai 705km, and from Chiang Dao to Chiang Mai 68,7 km.

My friend in Bangkok said it's hard for me to do hitchhike in Thailand,
1st, he said "u r an Asian, it would be easy If u r white people.
2nd, doing hitchhike in Thailand is not a common culture.

But I did it

- Crawling alone on tight water pipe under the road for almost 20 minutes on Chiang Dao - North Thailand at night, Only to take my phone that has fallen into a water pipe. The pipe only enough for 1 person, so dark and a lot of spider web, the current is very strong, If you're lying your body on that pipe, your body will move easily. and the Amazing thing is, my phone still alive and I'm still using until now. I can show you If you're lucky to meet me :P

- Be a leader on my new campus organization for 2 years, without the experiences before.

Teach, Learn, Share

- I can teach you everything about art, such as photography, editing, drawing, design, etc

- I can teach you how to cook Indonesian Special Food,

1. Nasi Goreng (Famous Fried Rice in Indonesia)
2. Gado - Gado (mixed vegetables with peanut sauce, If you're vegetarian)

- I can teach you how to cook American food, the receipt that I learned from my host from the US who already living in Laos for 13 years

- I can teach you how to cook Mongolian Cuisine :P

- I can share all my amazing travel stories

- I can teach you Bahasa (Indonesian Language)

What I Can Share with Hosts

- My wonderful journey (Pictures, Videos, Stories, Tips & Trick for cheap traveling)
- Language & Culture Exchange
- My knowledge about art especially photography

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Laos, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Indonesia