Website/Blog of my 2015-2016 trip : ⏳http://joris.travelmap.fr/

⏰TRIP

📌«Avoid the unpleasant surprises, is to be sure to haven't the good one.»
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🏁I'm going to travel in the end of 2014 to 2015-2016 by land, through Europe than Africa🌍, reach the South America🌎 continent by 👍hitchhike a boat⛵in Dakar, then make a big turn around there for at least a year and a half. I guess I´ll be travelling around 13 countries.
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ABOUT ME
🌍🌎🌏Hi, I'm Joris, a curious chef world traveler since I´m 19 years. I've been travelling in 35 countries, in 6 different continents (base on a 7 continents model).

👣👣👣I'm used to travel by myself, going around with my light backpack, murmur in the mountains´ ears, explore countries that intrigue me the most, discover different cultures and live with the locals.
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PHILOSOPHY

📌“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Aldous Huxley

I like the fact of meeting new people with a different point of view.
I´ve been Hitch-Hiking since I´m 15-16, almost all my lonely way last 4 years, with over 30 000 km.
For me, HH is the best way to travel. It makes you tolerant because you must be open-mind as you meet every kind of people👤, every sex👫, orientation👬👭, color👮👴, race👲👳🐒👽, class🏰🏠⛺, religion⛪🔯🉐, politic opinion♻🔱🌐💰, age💃👼🎅, personality💅💄💵💳📚🔭💻🎪🎧 and taste🍰🍕🍲🍌🍏🌽🍟🍳🍍

📌"It is better to travel well than to arrive."
Buddha
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After my first year of travelling in Australia🐨, I realize how time⏳ problem is just a modern thing that occidental societies bring as a routine. I decided to keep going my travels, without any exceptation of time schedule🔜. I go around, slowly, with not much plans, and they are always changeable🆓. So I decided to try to not take anymore planes✈ for travels, as it goes too fast for me.⏩⏩

📌«La liberté,
Quand on aspire à un destin
Honni par l'ordre des gens bien
Qu'elle est dure la liberté
La liberté.»
Georges Brassens
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🔧PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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I'm travelling NOW, for the first time in 4 years, with an internet device, a 📱tablet! Still no smartphone📵. I still don't use What's-Up📴, Twitter🐦 or even Facebook💀. I usually have a local number with which I contact people from the country.👂☎

I consider myself as a Half-Vegetarian🍗🔛🍅 as I try to eat at least half less meat. I still eat some meat🍖, but I never need it, even for months. I eat everything and have no special diet.🍦🍪🍫🍳🍞🍲🍠🍌🍄🍇🌽

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

🔛HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As a surfer, I enjoy spending some time🕒 with the locals, but I can also be very independent if the people don't have time. I can always be here for giving a hand👋 for anything for my host. For me the exchange start by not feeling afraid of asking for anything.
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🏠COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

🚩I started by hosting people in my flat just by meeting them in the street.
For 4 years now, I've been without any home🏠, so didn't host in my own flat, but in other's one sometimes😁

I've been hosted many times➕, a lot without using CS at all, just by meeting some people in the country. I got picked in Australia, China, Mongolia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Brazil, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Argentina. I met a few more people with CS for having a cup of tea🍵 or a walk in the city.👣

Interests

🍴Share a meal I just cooked♨ is a real pleasure for me, and usually for other people too! I´m really happy to learn cooking recipe from everywhere and also to share my knowledge.🔪🔥

After my chef school🎓, I was about to go into an art school🎨, but finally I didn't, and start travelling🏁🚀. I´ve been doing street art since few years, during my travelling or at home, I like to express myself on a wall in the street💥. I´m also really interesting about art in general, painting, photography📷, dancing🎠, theater🎭...

✒✏When I was 16, I start to write a lot for myself. Since then, I´ve got this need to write. I write about all my wonderment of life, travelling philosophy, interesting meetings in life.

🙇🙏I also got into spirituality of life, meditation, Buddhism and other stuff since 2012. I´m thinking of doing a Vipassana stage in south America👳

🌲🌴🌼🌈I love nature and mountains since I´m young, I guess, but I re-🔙realize it a few years ago, and it´s now a wide part of my life🆒. In every country I want to go, there is a place I want to climb up🗻. I´ve been rock climbing for 10 years, but during my travelling I don´t use to climb. I hike/trek a lot now since I´m travelling with all the trekking stuff to be autonomous.⛺

• arts
• street art
• dining
• cooking
• dieting
• modeling
• meditation
• walking
• drinking
• pub crawls
• boating
• traveling
• blogging
• painting
• music
• guitar
• piano
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• sailing
• buddhist
• rock climbing
• swimming
• languages
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

🎬Movies🎥 : I have a child's soul, I love watching animation movie, from big studio as Pixar, Ghibli, Dreamworks, Walt Disney but also from small one as Filmax, Les Armateurs, Madhouse.
Kirikou, Valse avec Bachir, Le Roi et l'Oiseau, Fantasia, Wall-E, Alice in Wonderland, Tokyo Godfathers, Nocturna, Dragon, Persepolis, Spirited Away, Les Triplettes de Belleville, Ghost In The Shell, Ernest et Célestine and more...

🎧Music🎤 : Passionate, I like a really lot of kind of music and I'm always happy to discover some new one. I listen most of chanson Francaise (Brassens, Dutronc, Brel, Piaf, Aznavour), folk singer, electronic (down-tempo, trip-hop,electronica), ambient (instrumental or electro), classique, world music, soundtrack...

📚Books📖 : Philosophy, comics (BATMAN!), novel, fantasy (Tolkien), travels books... Pratchett, Camus, DC, Jardin, Marquez, Paulo Coelho, Sylvain Tesson. I don't have favorite one and I can't tell you everyone I read.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Long part, you don't have to read that to know about me, it's just extra.

PER COUNTRY :
(because I wouldn't reduce awesome life to one thing)

🌵-Driving 1800 km straight of desert unsealed road through the Gibson desert in Australia, with my normal two-wheels drive car.

❄-Swimming in the frozen Baikal lake in the middle of winter in Siberia by -25 degrees.

🍺-Drinking lot of Guinness in an Irish pub in Dublin, and still be the lowest drinker of the bar.

💂-Spending only one day in my entire life in London, then manage by accident to be the Prince William's Wedding day.

💰-Getting a lift across 1000km in Spain with a GoFast car with 10.000€ cash from drug selling.

🚂-Travelling in the Russian Transiberian train for 5192 km in 102 hours and cross more than half of the longest country in the world, and 1/8 of the Hearth´s circumference.

🗻-Climbing the Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia, 2.864 m and became half Slovenian by heart by reaching it.

🈹👲-Walking a full day on the Great Wall of China and bump into 5 people.

🍼-Tasting the fermented mare´s milk, Koumiss, and the salty Süütei Tsai tea in Mongolia.

⛄-Spending a December in Gdansk in Poland.

🌌-Sleeping with the Milky Way as a blanket in the middle of the desert in Australia.

🌄-Feeling the spiritual power of the fabulous Angkor's Temples in Cambodia.

🐜-Trying every insect food in Vietnam.

🚗-Getting my longest hitchhiking lift in Sahara desert, 1.260 km, crossing all Western Sahara.

🌅-Waking up at 4am and walk alone in the darkness for 2 hours to the highest dune in Moroccan Merzouga desert to watch the sunrise.

🎅-Spending my Christmas and New's Year eve in Mauritania, a 99% Muslim country.

⛵-Hitchhiking a 13 m boat in Capo Verde and cross the Atlantic Ocean for Salvador Da Bahia in Brasil, in 3 weeks of sailing, only 2 people aboard.

👣 - Crossing the 120km Chapada Diamantina in Brazil north to south by feet, with 5 days without seeing human being.

🗻-Trekking during 6 days for the 110km complete turn of Illampu mountain in Bolivia, reaching pass over 5000m, camping over 4600m, completing a 11.500m difference of altitude.

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Teach, Learn, Share

📐📏TEACH : Cooking, of course🔪! French, English and Spanish🔠. Many musical instruments🎸🎷🎹🎺🎻 (in particular guitar, ukulele, piano, etc...) Street art vandalism, by the way I want to learn all what I don't know.
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👀LEARN : ALL music instrument📯🎤🎼! ALL cooking I don't know.
If you like food, Let's cook! I know a lot about food cause I'm a chef, and I can easily teach about all what I know. But I still have many things to learn as well!
If you like art, I like to meet some artist, or rather someone who works on to do something which come from his brain💡. I like to talk about art, going to exhibitions and why not make something together.
I wanna improve my Spanish and learn Arabic, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and any other languages too.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Senegal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Chile, France