Hey there! We are Katya and Ivan, a couple from Siberia. In 2018 we decided to qiut our jobs and go on a crazy hitchhiking journey wich lasted a whole year! We got the idea at the end of May and 2 months later started out with our backpacks ready. It was our very first trip 🙃 Now we are back in Russia and decided to explore Kaliningrad region.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We believe that staying with local people is the best experience you can get in traveling - exploring most interesting places, learning culture and cuisine, sharing experience and knowledge.. you can not get any of that staying in a hotel room! 😉 You exchange experience, see different views to life which change your perspective and make your mind open to new ideas.

Interests

We like cycling, winter tubing, hiking, walking along the beach or on a river bank, we love good Chinese tea culture, we enjoy swimming in the sea or in a swimming pool and playing boardgames in a good company (we have a small collection)☺️I (Katya) like creative activities such as mehndi, drawing or painting something, loooove cooking cakes and desserts. You can visit my instagram to learn about my passion for cooking https://www.instagram.com/vmaline_tort/ I’m interested in psychology and naturally healthy lifestyle. Ivan is a programmer, he is interested in sports (workouts), contemporary dance, music, he loves learning new things in any sphere of life.

• horses
• cooking
• movies
• cycling
• fishing
• hiking
• backpacking
• skydiving
• swimming
• archery
• languages
• travelling
• massage
• horseback riding
• hangdrum
• roofing
• chinese tea ceremony
• mehndi

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Getting out of comfort zone - daring to go on such trip and meeting a lot of wonderful people on the way!! Hitchhiked more then 20 000 km on this trip 😎

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can have fun cooking something yummy together, play boardgames that we are talking with us, share our incredible travel stories make up some fun on the way and discover new paths 😄

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Greece, India, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Oman, Russian Federation, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation