I'm currently traveling around Asia for a year with my girlfriend and we are eager to share moments with locals and expats because this is our favorite way of traveling. Traveling is about cultural exchanges. We try to immerse ourselves in the culture as well as to share a bit of Europe with locals. The opportunity to exchange cultures is important to create acceptance and understanding. We hitchhike as much as we can and we avoid the most touristic ways when traveling and it brings us to great and unexpected encounters and to stay locals' houses. As we are very interested in permaculture designed farming, we want to take part in volunteer projects by using platforms as woofing, helpx in this kind of field.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As slow travelers we travel to experience places rather to sightsee them. We want to share experiences, opinions, ways of living, travel tips and worldwide cultures. In this point of view, CS stands in this way of traveling in which you meet people, exchange and learn from each other.

Interests

We are learning more about photography while traveling but we are into art in general. Back home, I will specialize myself in permaculture, something we have learned from a volunteering program in an organic farm in Thailand called Gaia Ashram. After two meditation retreats in a temple where we also volunteered, we want to bring this practice with us back home. My girlfriend, Sapho, is playing instruments since she is little. We both love to cook and share it with others.

• theater
• photography
• organic food
• running
• meditation
• hiking
• skiing
• skateboarding
• permaculture
• climbing
• aromatherapy
• organic farming
• fujifilm
• jazz, blues and hip hop music
• piano, harmonica and guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

- "The old man and the sea", "The garden of Eden" from Hemingway, "L'alchimiste" from Paulo Coelho, "Siddartha", "Demian" and "Le loup des steppes" from Herman Hess, "Les 4 accords toltèques" from Don Miguel Ruiz, "New earth", "The power of now" from Eckhart Tolle, "Women who run with the wolves" from Pinkola and many many more.
-Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Robert Plant, Bobby McFerrin, Bon Iver, James Blake, Ella Fitzgerald, Damon Albarn, Ry x, Tash Sultana, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Robert Hood, Billie Holiday, Afu-ra, Alton Ellis, Atmosphere, Call super, Chilly Gonzales, Rhye, Jorja Smith, Jay Daniel, Jonwayn, Mac DeMarco, Masego, Mos Def, and many more.
-Darjeeling limited, The life aquatic with Steve Zissou , La ligne verte, Fantastic Mr fox, Apocalypse now, Full metal jacket, Blow, Dead man, Donnie Brasco, The shawshank redemption, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, City of god, Whiplash, American beauty, and many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Going up to 5.600km in the Himalayas, Nepal
-Crossing Vietnam and Laos with motorbike that we bought
-Experiencing CS in South America and Sulawesi, Indonesia (for my girlfriend)
-Hiking on volcanos in Indonesia
-Using only hitchhiking in Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia as a way of transport
-Volunteering in a permaculture farm for 2 months in Thailand
-Working as a volunteer in a monastery, vipassana meditation retreat

What I Can Share with Hosts

My experiences, energy, positive mindset

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, England, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Tanzania, Thailand, United States, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, United States