Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

Coach surfing I think is the best way to truly experience a country as the locals do and therefore get a more authentic experience hanging out with local people that has much more insight that you just cant get from guide books and internet research.

Intereses

• books
• cooking
• coach
• drinking
• traveling
• watching sports
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• scuba diving
• sports
• soccer
• rugby
• swimming
• tourism
• volunteering
• beaches

Música, películas y libros

There is a lot of cool movies but the only one that really made a lasting expression on me is "Into the Wild"
Then I love listing to new hip songs and then there is the classics like U2, Kings of Leon, Kongos, Coldplay.

Algo increíble que he hecho

The year was 2012 and I have never been outside of South-Africa's
borders before. I was 20 years old still the holder of a valid child passport that expired mid Jan 2013 giving me about a month left & R800 in my pocket ($80). I just returned from Stellenbosch for the college break and decided to do something crazy. So I decided to go to Mozambique alone with illegal immigrants working in South Africa going home for the festive season. The one lovely evening we where having a South African braai and drinking rum, the next morning I woke up at the Mozambique border squeezed into a small bakkie (pickup truck) with a Mozambican family with my bag strapped to the trailer.

So the guy dropped me at the border and met me at the other side without even having a passport. The Mozambican man gave me a tent and even borrowed me his small bike that I sold to him back in South Africa. I lived on Macaneta island for about 3 days before almost dying of heat and mosquito bites, then we went to a small African village where I attended a funeral and the locals cooking me a dish. The next day Kito invited me to his home where I spend the night before organizing a taxi back to Johannesburg.

As appealing as an small adventure as this sound its quite hard being is such a poor county without the proper facilities you used to in your home country. Then you live in a tent on the beach in scorching 40 degrees heat and mosquitos eating you alive. Sometimes you wonder, what did I get myself into? But it was all worth it and doing something crazy like this just makes you feel alive.

Thinking back this was an amazing experience, since I have started me career as a travel agent I had the opportunities to travel to Mozambique again more geared for the situation. Then I have also travelled to the Namib desert in Namibia and had an amazing time in Mauritius.

Países que he visitado

Egypt, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Palestine, Russian Federation, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Vatican City State

Países en los que he vivido

Israel, South Africa, United States