Just about a year ago I set off on the road, it was my first time abroad&backpacking alone, so lucky I am that many kind locals&travelers encouraged me a lot so I got the nerve to keep on rolling and realized the world is wide enough for everyone to enjoy it:)

So I quitted my stable life and planned a big journey that will start from July.1.2024, a road trip from Shanghai to Africa, crossing 3 continents to understand myself&world better.

Absolutely I also crave for a high-quality stable life, so I’m learning French&Arabic since I wanna join NGOs such as MSF in Africa&Middle East, probably work as a documentary journalist to repay back to the world a bit. And maybe afterwards I’ll move to France to continue my study in Cinematography or Journalism.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Stay with Locals&Meet more travelers

Interests

• literature
• modern art
• pub crawls
• painting
• hiking
• cinematography
• islam
• yoga and meditation
• tibetan buddhism
• jounalism

Music, Movies, and Books

🎶Music, I’m basically a 60’s-80s’ rocks and blues person but I have to say I get a pretty shitty music taste:
Arcade Fire, Bob Dylan, 万能青年旅店, Pink Floyd, Kings, مشروع ليلى , RHCP, SVR, CCR, GNR, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, etc

📖Books, I’m a nerd I’m a nerd I’m a nerd:
Dostoevsky, Existentialism novels, Jack Kerouac, Hesse, Yukio Mishima and mostly art & religious books and weird novels😂

🎬Movies, I’m omw watching all the classics:
Kubrick, Kurosawa, 侯孝贤, 王家卫, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Bertolucci, Abbas, Godard, etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Almost dead in the mountains(for one too many times🤣)
Debate with Jihadists in Beirut
Hitchhiked 2300km in winter Tibet

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Zen/Tibetan Buddhism, Photography, Islamic traditions and maybe a bit about Al-Quran
Learn: All ears for everything :)
Share: Culture/Experience exchange

What I Can Share with Hosts

A little Tibetan Buddhism Oil Stick Painting with a blessing sentence :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Brunei Darussalam, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

China