Yeiiii... currently I'm living and working in Bangui, the Capital of the Central African Republic. For various reasons that doesn't gives me too much time for hosting but neither couchsurfing right now :/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Well.. there've been some phases in my CS-live: I just discovered that I joined couch surfing more than 10 years ago when I was for a job in Santiago de Chile. I thought it would be the way to get in touch with others -however it came different and I found many other ways to get local, so I didn't really used couchsurfing . I really started participating and loving cs some 6 years ago on a trip on the arabian peninsula.

Interests

I do love sport, especially football and pingpong but lately discovered volley.
I do love meeting people and having a chat on whatever comes to our minds.
I do love photography and art.
I do love being in the water, although not particularly swimming (maybe a thing from my hometown river Rhine, where you can easily float down).

Music, Movies, and Books

I love Jostein Gaarder. Haven't read all his books, but loved the ones I did.

Movies.. well since the nineties I love Forrest Gump and it always makes me smile thinking about it. However I think Lars von Trier is a great filmmaker and Ricardo Darin an amazing actor - so I'm fascinated by their work.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hard to say - not because everyday is that spectacular, but...

- after celebrating with peruvians their national day during the night, climbing up to Macchu Pichuu the next morning to see the sunrise, ending up quite dehydrated (as "no water bottle inside!") in the evening and drinking a huge bottle of Fanta.. that was an experience I keep in mind forever.

- sitting for hours on the boat on the Yangtskiang in China, bringing me to Chongching, seeing the big dam, which was being built in that time (2005), and thinking about the three gorges (and the many more) that will be under water a few years later - somehow great to know things from mankind.

- hours walking in the Sahel of Mali, without meeting a soul, but suddenly bump in a heard of sheeps with a small boy, having a chat in different languages and finally running home, because a sandstorm was coming - an impressive thing, which provokes some fear and respect towards mother nature.

- of course, two weeks in Tibet: Having a night in the Everest-Base Camp, where the tea in the thermos and the suncream was frozen in the morning.. or simply sitting in front of the Pottala Palace and trying to get a photo without the chinese flag .. and thinking in the meanwhile about politics.

- listen to hundreds of steel drums in the Port of Spain's panyards - the backyards where you can join the pre-carnival preparations, feel everyones intensity climbing from night to night, until they are super high for the carnival days, and me: drinking a cool carib in the nice temperature of Trinidad & Tobago and looking forward to three days 'wining', 'soca' and 'calypso'.

- I did many snorkeling trips, but the one in Belize just off the coast of Caye Caulker was really, really, realllllly amazing: Swimming around sharks and turtles was something I experienced earlier in Malaysia, Egypt, Oman, the UAE, .. but swimming with these manta ray was amazing: Seeing these huge animals moving around, spookily but so smooth and elegant and even follow and fondle them, with the most respect, was incredible. Two years ago I became a diver and try since then to dive whenever possible.

- discovering three years in a row the Dia de los Muertos in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, was each time a really amazing experience. Very touching how locals celebrate and get together with their beloved ones on the cementaries, squares and their homes. Sharing joy and pain, tamales and mezcal, music and songs, tears and laughers, stories and silence, and so much more...

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to hear and learn from other travellers and -whenever possible- in my house I share the fridge (for a cool drink), the barbecue (for a decent asado) and my yerba (for the morning mate tea).

What I Can Share with Hosts

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Thats what I usually carry in my bag while being abroad, jeje.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Central African Republic, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland