CURRENT MISSION

"The same of every nights Pinky... Try to take over the world!" in Pinky & Brain :) Really, just give and receive...sympathy

ABOUT ME

For better or worst we think the references from other people are the best to describe us.

We are a civil engineer couple in transition to a sustainable way of living. Our days are usually intense, divided by designing and building our farm, growing our food and animals, carving in whale bone and similar materials, giving workshops, making homemade soaps, mountain/tourism guidance... almost no civil engineering :)

During summer, our work is mainly taking people to the top of Portugal.

We don't smoke or drink and usually don't get out to a restaurant or a coffee or a disco... prefer do get along in our or someone's house or even in a walk on the nature... something more personal and cosy and where we can do and eat what we want without spending so much money, which we prefer to spend travelling.

PHILOSOPHY

Live day by day...
Giving a little bit of you for anything or anyone will bring you after a lot from them/it...
Better do than speak ...
If everyone do it, doesn't mean that is the correct way, and we can't be ashame of doing it differently

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Total Surfers 25 from 12 countries : France 8, Poland 3, Portugal 3, Spain 2, USA 2, Peru 1, Japan 1, China1, Germany 1, Russia 1, Switzerland 1 & Canada 1

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've been in tours, meetings, traveling, hosting and surfing...

We start going in to a city tour in our city, then hosting people for a few months, while preparing our big trip to south america.

Then, from March 2012 to March 2014 we've been hosted by wonderful persons everywhere... all great and distinct experiences.

Hosted in 12 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, French Guyana, Suriname, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay & Portugal.

Interests

Traveling... photography... trekking... music... cycling... walking... handicraft... cooking... swimming(not Nuno)...recycling... bioconstructing... volunteering... gardening...natural cosmetics...self suficiency... PERMACULTURE

• animals
• photography
• beauty
• make up
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• walking
• drinking
• gardening
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• swimming
• engineering
• geography
• history
• tourism
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

About music, we like a little bit of everything... Monica prefers calmer and Nuno heaviest. Here are a few Portuguese references: Blasted Mechanism (our favorite - their concerts are the best), Kumpania Algazarra, Clã, Carlos Paredes, Pedra Branca (Brazil)...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- To be in Machu Picchu...TWICE
- Climb to the summit of Nevado Pisco (5752m) in National Park Of Huascaran in Peru, during a snowstorm (unfortunately the views were no more than white)
- Drive more than 6000km in 3 weeks in Mexico in search of many Mayan cities as possible. We managed to visit 29 archaeological sites: Palenque, Uxmal, Edzna, Mayapan and Tikal(Guatemala) are really worth and have almost no tourists comparing with Chichen-Itza or Tulum.
- As our T-shirts say... "We survived the deadliest road in the world" Bolivia
- Get to the Bolivian Amazon Basin by bus trough a really crowded and worst road than the Death Road, during an everlasting 28 hours
- To swim not just with the pink river dolphins (Bufeo Bufeo) at the Amazon Basin but also with the piranhas and black caymans at the same place - Yacuma River.
- Climb Mount Roraima and go to Angel falls in Venezuela.
- Hosting two CS girls one night in our tent and other in our hammocks, while travelling in Venezuela.
- Look for the Guyanian Cock-of-the-rock specie in Kaw reserve, French Guyana and six months later see the Andean specie while leaving Machu Picchu by foot on the railway.
- To help building 2 solar panels with plastic bottles in Ecuador, while having the opportunity to know and live with 2 wonderful families.
- 5 days in Equatorian jungle, where we tasted about everything: from sloth to beetle larvae, passing trough ants and aardvark
- Walking alone for 9 days, around 180km, between Cachora and Macchu Picchu, passing by Choquequirao and Salkantay lagoon, without carriers, mules or guides
- Plan to volunteer in a permaculture ecoschool in Chile just for 2 weeks and end to stay there an entire year, building a wood house from scratch and living for 2 months on it.
- Hitch-hiking almost 5000km all around Patagonia.
- Visiting Torres del Paine (7 days round trekking), Perito Moreno Glaciar and Mount Fitz Roy (3 days round trekking) in less than 2 weeks
- Using a free, light, recycled, handmade, alcohol can stove for more than one and a half year... under every kind of weather circumstances, including over 4500m above see level.
- Leaving Portugal for a 6 months trip to South America but staying there for 2 years :)
- Pico Mountain´s top, highest peak of Portugal: Nuno 275 times, Mónica 216 times (and counting)
- Monica appears in one of the official videoclips of our favourite band (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm7obxmi1mM 1:33minutes)

Teach, Learn, Share

We can teach you a little bit of Portuguese, at least a few tricks about pronunciation and differences between Portuguese and Spanish.
We love to talk about our travelling experiences and our organization and planning allows us to give a few references for the places where we've been. This is our travelling blog https://acaminharpor.blogspot.com and facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-caminhar-por/213295615427249?ref_type=bookmark

Cooking... mainly sweets and cookies and cakes and breads...

Also a little bit of geography, while trying to explain where Nuno was born :), and a little of the past history of whaling in Azores, now substituted by the Whale Watching and bone and teeth handicrafts. Just for the record, people are not killing whales to work their bones and teeth, we are working the leftovers that were considered garbage on the old days, we are allowed to work and sell it (https://www.facebook.com/artesanatocapitaoalves/ )..."integrate rather than segregate" - permaculture principle

What's PERMACULTURE ask us and join the group :)
Natural building, recycling, making natural soap and other beauty and cleaning products, building the best and lightest stove ever, made out of a can. This is our blog about permaculture: http://caminharpermacultura.wix.com/home and Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/acaminharnapermacultura?ref_type=bookmark

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can offer, smiles, meals, travel and permaculture talk... help if you need.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Suriname, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Ecuador, Portugal

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