CURRENT MISSION

After gathering incredible stories and pictures in Georgia, Lake Baikal and Tajikistan, I am going to do the same for the Baltic States - I used to live in Latvia.

ABOUT ME

Full time traveler since 2005. Traveling (with photography and film making) now also became my profession. In France and Switzerland, I give shows where people travel through my speech, photographies, and a documentary movie.

I was settled for three years in a magical place in Siberia: Olkhon island, in the middle of Lake Baikal. I made a photo album and toured France to tell about Lake Baikal. Then I did the same about Tajikistan, and the history repeated with Georgia. Now it is time to do about the same for the Baltic States !

I never buy return tickets. For the last 13 years, I felt like a nomad: finding a good place, settling for a while, and leaving for a new adventure. I gathered many inspiring stories that I am always happy to share.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfing has changed my life. It largely defines my way of traveling and experiencing stays abroad.
I speak about the project usually in terms of outstanding personal experiences and usually people are persuaded to join!
Couchsurfing is an awesome response to the lack of spontaneous hospitality in modern cultures.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The community has helped me a lot especially when it was about getting settled in a city (for instance Izmir, Berlin, Riga).
Wonderful travel memories in Denmark, Turkey, France, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Tajikistan, Iran etc...

Interests

!!! Photography !!!
Some of my pictures are on www.nicolaspernot.com

I recently created a photo album about Lake Baikal, and another one about Tajikistan. I am doing presentations in Europe about life in Siberia and Central Asia.
Languages
My favorite hobby might be collecting special times with great people (like you)
Share traveling stories through words and pictures
Traditional musics from all over the world

• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• traveling
• music
• languages
• sightseeing
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- traveled and lived abroad for 14 years. Never sent application letters to anybody but got great jobs everywhere.
- giving hundred shows a year for about the last 6 years
- spent 1,5 year in Tajikistan in the house of a former socialist party secretary.
- teaching photography and French language on an island in Siberia, on a lake the size of Belgium : Baikal.
- driving a 100 € car all the way from France to Burkina Faso (13000km, 4 months).
- listening, having fun, dancing in Pakistani Sufi festivals
- driving rickshaws/taxi bikes in Copenhagen
- Nepal: unforgettable 16 days trek in December in the Himalayas
- India: the biggest religious festival in the world: Kumbh Mela dozens of millions gathering on the banks of the Very Holy :) Ganga river.
- hundreds of 6000-8200m mountains as an everyday sightseeing for some weeks in Pakistan.
- shamanism has crossed my way a couple of times for the last years, and the experience of a large number of unexplained events drives my quest for answers.

oh well the list is long
............. i don't like these kind of lists anyway ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

I usually teach Photography/English/French/computers.

What I am good at is telling how to live abroad without initial plans :)

Enjoy tons of gooood music and let's share the 100 best life or travel stories we all have packed in our head !!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Photography, film making, story telling, 14 years long travel experience, etc

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, India, Iraq, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Western Sahara

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Latvia, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkey

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