CURRENT MISSION :
Spread Love and Kindness around the World .
Meeting, learning and touching beautiful Souls around the world
ABOUT ME :
Instagram : ekofocus Facebook : Alessio Maltrotto
(2020) Italy - Waiting to go back in New Zealand
(2020) Uppsala - Sweden - 6 months
(2019) Philippines - 1 month
(2019) South Korea - 3 months
(2018-2019) New Zealand - Hitcchiked around New Zealand
(2018) Back to visit friends in Malaysia and Australia. Heading to New Zealand.
(2016-2017) : Walked around 1000km from France to Muxia on the Camino Frances (Camino de Santiago) Stopped in France near by Bordeaux to pick grapes for wine. Hitchiked around France and Germany and then back to Italy. Since i left Australia
(August 2014) i've been traveling through Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and from Myanmar started to explore southeast Asia Hitchhiking through Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, and after i visited Singapore and went trough Malaysia for the second time on my way to going back to Myanmar i had to go back to Italy for private problems. Since i came back to Italy i started to work a bit here and a bit there, focusing my free time on my big passion, photography. I'm open at new adventure and all the things i never done, i like learning something new, really sociable and looking forward to meet a lot of people to stay in contact and share future traveling.
PHILOSOPHY (or better a reminder to myself):
We Are One and One is Us Enjoy the MOMENT! The time will never come back. Be Happy! Don't leave at tomorrow something you can do now. You can always improve yourself. Looking forward and never backward. But live in the present because it's the only moment that really exist You are what you think, you are what you eat. Feed your mind with positive thoughts and your body with your healthy Food. The most important thing after you fall is stand up and be stronger than before. Hard work never killed anyone. Reborn from the ashes as a Phoenix. You can start to change the world starting to change yourself, because you're part of it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Heard of CS in a convention in Italy and after in Australia met some people used CS, i decided to try it in my short trip in Malaysia.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE First experience was in Malaysia, and was just amazing, met local people and shared our different cultures. was just beautiful, i think is the best way to travel. I'm currently traveling trying to use CS as much as i canto meet local people and share my stories. Now I'm also using my tent while hitchhike to move around, it give me freedom and flexibility, but a host is always a relief from the life "on the road".

Interests

+Mindfulness + living a virtuous life

PHOTOGRAPHY!

I used to work in a farm in Victoria (Australia) where I discovered Permaculture .
I'm interest in Environment and Sustainability.

Want to learn more about languages Spanish, Chinese Japanese, French and Portuguese and i always want to absorb as much as i can from local people while i travel in a new country.

I like sports, European Football, Basketball, Tennis, and i like stay fit, i used to go in Gym for training util i get injured.

In school i was really interested in Philosophy, Psychology but i chose to study Economics...

• animals
• books
• photography
• vegetarian
• yoga
• running
• massage therapy
• meditation
• hiking
• camping
• languages
• philosophy
• psychology
• hitchhiking
• tea
• sustainability
• healing
• alternative medicine
• nutrition
• alternative living

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
- Memento and others Christopher Nolan Movie - Luc Besson 's movies - Into the Wild - Donnie Darko - Lord of Rings - Blow - Fight Club - Untouchable - Butterfly Effect - Sliding Doors - BARAKA and Samsara - The Dreamers - I Origins Music: My favourite songs are : Imagine (John Lennon) Society ( Eddie Vedder) Guaranteed (Eddie Vedder) I belive i can fly (R. Kelly) I love the lyrics and the meaning of these songs - The Beatles - The Doors - Tupac - Coldplay - Caparezza - Negrita - Linkin Park - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Johnny Cash - Bob Dylan - Jazz

Books:
- Siddharta - Little Prince - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - Norwegian Wood - The book of the five rings - Haruki Murakami's books - Tiziano Terzani's books - Italo Calvino's books - Zafon's books Well so many More

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Travel around Myanmar with an Abbot, monks and nuns. Paying visit to a tribe in the mountain where the tribe celebrate the arrive of the abbot, wearing typical costume of the tribe. Living for other 2 weeks in Thabarwa Meditation Centre, a community of old, homeless, sick people who is growing thanks to the good deeds of the Abbot who teach meditation as a mindfulness way to live. - Hitchhiked through Thailand, Cambodia, Lao and Vietnam. - Slept on the Lao-Vietnam border and walked in the morning for 8km until a first car passed through, finally hitchhiked down to a small town.
- Lived one month helping as volunteer in a Kindergarten in Luang Prabang (Laos)
- While hitchhiking in Laos i have been invited to a Lao's wedding and to stay overnight with them
- Walking from France to the end of the world (aka Finisterre), sleeping 90% of the time outside with just a sleeping bag (get cold, get wet, get awesome, get nature, get stars, get LIFE)

Teach, Learn, Share

Give: love and kindness

Share culture, philosophy, meditation, massages, language exchange , cooking and traveling tips experiences, ideas.
Share moments of our life while traveling.

Photography!!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Love and kindness, philosophy, meditation,Ideas, experiences, culture exchange.

Cooking together.
I can make an awesome Tiramisù ;)

Kindsness, help for anything.

Smiles!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Monaco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Italy, New Zealand