CURRENT MISSION

Viajar pelo Brasil, conhecer e viver novas experiencias nas regioes que ainda não visitamos. A gente esta na Ilha Grande 4 meses ja, um lugar que sempre voltamos porque é como uma casa para nos, mais agora estamos prontos para pegar as mochilas e nos aventurar de novo!😊

Traveling Brazil, getting to know and experience regions we haven't before. We've been the last four months in Ilha Grande, a place we keep coming back as it feels like a home to us, but we are now ready for new adventures!

ABOUT ME

As 2 coisas que mais amo fazer: viajar e fotografar, e tive a sorte de encontrar um namorado que é apaixionado pelas mesmas coisas tambem 😄
Estamos juntos 8 anos ja e sempre que podemos viajamos.
Os 2 trabalhamos agora fazendo fotos para capas de livro.
Eu sou argentina e ja viajei de mochilao com una amiga pelo sur do Brasil (mais terminei morando na Ilha Grande um ano 🤭)
Leonardo é uruguayo e tambem viajou de mochilao e estudiou turismo.
A gente não so gosta de viajar e fotografar, tambem gostamos de cozinhar, filmes e musica (Leo toca o baixo e eu bailo salsa) livros, conhecer gente e bater papo para trocar ideas, aprender coisas novas, deitar na praia ou fazer longas trilhas...o que seja na natureza!

Before getting to know each other, we were both passionate about traveling and we also had our personal experiences backpacking.
I -Gaby- backpacked through Brazil with a friend, Marina, and had many wonderful experiences couchsurfing :) . I finally ended up that trip living on Ilha Grande for over a year.
Leonardo, who is from Uruguay, traveled to Chile and ended up living in Argentina, where we met and fell in love ♡
Beside from sharing the love for travel and photography, we are also very much into coocking, movies and music (Leo plays the bass, I dance salsa), outdoors activities, trekkings, specially on natural environments. books and sense of humour, relaxing on a beach or strolling around city streets. Exploring new posibilities and experiencing new things and the list goes on and on!

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe diem ;)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Ja falei o muito que gostamos de viajar, mais o que mais gostamos é da gente que conhecemos e com a qual compartilhamos nel camino. As posibilidades de conhecer outras costumes, formas de viver, pensar, aprender umos de outros, rir... un lugar é o que é tambem por sua gente
Tive ja algumas experiencias aqui mesmo no Brasil e adorei, conheci pessoas muito legais, das que tinho lembranzas maravilhosas dos momentos que compartilhamos. Na europa, a gente ficou no londres na pandemia, sem poder voltar, e uma pessoa muito especial que conhecimos aqui nos acolho e pasamos juntos esse momento tão dificil.

I had several couchsurfing experiences while traveling with a friend in my trip to Brazil many years ago. All of them were extraordinary and greatly surpase our expectations. Our couchs were amazingly kind, they showed us many places, we shared stories, meals, activities and beautiful moments.
I'm happy to be able to live this experience again, and Leo will be new at this so his pretty anxious himself!

En brasil estuvimos en varios lugares haciendo couchsurfing. todas las experiencias fueron extraordinarias, superando todas las expectativas. Todos fueron muy amables, nos enseñaron cosas de sus lugares, compartimos lindos momentos.

Interests

At risk of becoming redundant, traveling and photography are our main passions. But we are open minded and curious people, so we are always searching for new experiences and adventures. Hopefully we´ll have some things in common and we can learn from each other and have a great time!

amo la fotografía, amo los libros, la poesí­a, las palabras. amo también escribir. el cine. el humor. amo la música, que sana y el arte, que salva. amo bailar, bailo salsa. amo la vida, lo simple y lo complejo, observar y preguntarme. amo viajar y vivir sorprendiendome.

• writing
• literature
• photography
• salsa dancing
• indian food
• politics
• movies
• outdoor activities
• travel
• nature
• wanderlust
• trekking
• learning languages
• brazil
• learning new things
• india
• asia
• cultural exchange
• exploring the world
• positive thinking
• enjoying nature
• southamerica
• enjoy life
• trying new things
• lingustics
• salsa music
• history and culture
• cooking together
• human connection
• ilha grande

Music, Movies, and Books

music: we both have pretty eclectic tastes such as manu chao/ana prada/fernando cabrera/calle 13/liliana herrero/la 33/bebe/charly garcia/regina spektor/kevin johansen/perota chingo/jorge drexler/lenine/damien rice/coiffeur/janis joplin/the beatles/camila moreno/spinetta/lisandro aristimuño/radiohead/portishead/ of monsters and men/ Ben Howard/ glen Hansard/the lumineers/ arcade fire/ Beirut/Bon Iver/ Coldplay/The xx/JoseGonzalez/ and many more!.

movies: memento/ el lado oscuro del corazón/ eternal sunshine of the spotless mind/stranger than fiction / inception/ tango feroz/ requiem for a dream/the edukators/ a ghost story/ (Brave heart is an emotional like, since I saw it like 15 times as a teen and cried every single one!) and a bunch more of course!...

writers we love: oliverio girondo/alejandra pizarnik/fernando pessoa/ eduardo galeano/ borges/ marguerite duras/ milan kundera/ kurt vonnegut/ noam chomsky/ julio cortazar/ gabriel garcia marquez/ nicanor parra/alejandro dolina/ gioconda belli/guillermo de posfay/ isaac asimov/ Mario vargasllosa and endless more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

swiming with plancton on Ilha Grande, paragliding, unbelievable trekks in the wilderness, hawaian canoeing for hours with friends to celebrate my 30th birthday, experiencing indian Holi festival (the one withflower color powders) like a local, spending christmas on an oasis in Peru, the cover of a book, photo exhibitions of our personal projects, dancing on a theatre.....

recitales inolvidables a los que he ido, bailar en el teatro, viajes improvisados sola, el viaje de mochilera por el litoral argentino y brasil,experiencias locas haciendo dedo x brasil, volar en parapente, caminatas x lugares increíbles en la isla donde viví x un año, nadar en el mar con plancton (noctilucas),aprendizajes del viaje como hacer macrame y slagline o nuevas danzas! bañarme en cascadas hermosas, remar x hrs una canoa hawaiana llena de globos con 3 amigos el dia de mi cumpleaños 30, y muchos etcs
un loco viaje a valparaíso...y más etcs
un segundo viaje mas loco todavia a valparaiso, seleccionada para participar del festival de fotografía internacional de Valpo
mas viajes por argentina
la tapa de un libro
mil cosas del viaje a turquia, india y tailandia =)

Teach, Learn, Share

teach spanish, photography tips, (basic salsa steps? =) ) how to prepare argentinian-uruguaian traditional mate. Leo can also teach some cool recipes!
we enjoy the process of learning in general, since we are the curious "want to try" type.

-vivir conectado a la naturaleza es vivir conectado a uno mismo

What I Can Share with Hosts

Our travel experiences, our culture (argentinian and uruguaian), photography tips and wathever flows in the moment!

-mis experiencias de viaje, historias sobre la vida en mi país, mi pasión por la fotografía...y por la vida misma

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, England, France, India, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay