2024 🌍 Currently Traveling in Asia & New Zealand since March

The last few years we traveled with Dávid to many places. We had two bigger trips. One was to South America it was 9 months, and the other was to Asia which lasted around 10 months.

On our way to become the first Hungarian couple to visit every country in the world! 🌍 68/197 🌍

🧍🏼‍♂️This is Dávid my boyfriend's account who is hosting & traveling with me:
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/david-selyem

🌍 I call myself a world citizen ⬇️

🚩Born in Venezuela 🇻🇪
🌿Lived in Syria 🇸🇾
🏠 Living in Hungary where I'm originally from 🇭🇺

From a Hungarian 🇭🇺 mom, Syrian 🇸🇾 dad 😄

I was born in Venezuela, Coro 🇻🇪 my family made shoes business there in the end of the 90's. At that time my dad was making a fortune from fixing leather shoes, because Venezuela was a rich country.
As the country begin to be more dangerous especially for white foreigners, we had to leave the country, and we moved to Hungary where I studied in elementary school.
My parents decided to live in Syria 🇸🇾 so we moved again, this time to Tartous, the coastal side of Syria. It was amazing, a big house on a hill with a nice view on the sea just a few kilometers away...until the war broke out. After that, my life ( my teenager years) consisted only about going to school then home, because my parents were afraid I can get kidnapped by the opposition party who was against the government in Syria. My city was with the government, and everyone was afraid of ISIS after they begin to occupy Syrian territories. We decided as a family that it's time to move back to Hungary. So we moved to the place I can call home: Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺

Budapest is a vibrant city. It's people are hard workers during the week, party animals in the weekend. I myself love to drink, but mostly at home, not in bars. I live with my boyfriend who has a house with garden in the edge of Budapest. If you visit us, you can feel both city and countryside vibes.

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Updated my profile on 25/10/2024

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is a platform to meet new and interesting people. We would be happy to share with you our travel stories from Asia, and South America، and of course Europe our home continent.
We are here on this platform to learn. We grow as we travel and meet new people. The most important thing is humanity. Without each other we can't live. We need to belong in to a community. Couchsurfing gave us more than that: it feels like having a family everywhere you go. Just like in families, good and bad things can happen, and we have to accept the experiences. It teaches us how to be more humble and tolerant...

Interests

• animals
• cats
• cooking
• wine tasting
• yoga
• technology
• traveling
• latin music
• backpacking
• languages
• religion
• food
• nature
• tv series
• beach
• learning languages
• sea
• pop music
• language learning
• books.
• wild nature
• wild camping
• español
• photograph
• portuguese
• nature walks
• digital nomad
• reggeaton
• landscape photography
• just dance
• اللغة العربية

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorite things ⬇️

Singer English: Selena Gomez, 5SOS
Latino: Enrique Iglesias
Arabic: Nancy Ajram

🎞️American movie: The terminal
🎞️ Indian movie: Bang Bang-Chennai Express.
📒Author: Cecilia Ahern and Kelly Oram.
📓Latest books I read:
•A deréktetovált lány: Amy Schumer •Freckles: Cecilia Ahern
•Crazy Rich Asians: Kevin Kwan

📺Tv series: Legacies, Stranger things, Shameless, Dynasty, The good place, La casa de papel, Dark, Wednesday, The office, 2 broke girls

Instagram favourites 👇
Favourite food 🍪blogger: fitwafflekitchen
Favourite travel ✈️ blogger: it changes a lot but currently:
🇭🇺Hungarian: Traveladdict.hu
🇬🇧English: Robertmichaelpoole, Raymondroca.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2018-2019
》Traveled to Alicante (Spain) for only 1 Cent
》Used the old cable cars in Chiatura(Georgia) and did not scare of falling down. (Which is out of operation now 😂)
》Roofing at St Petersburg's roofs 🇷🇺
》In 2019 we've been to 22 countries. 😄 Mainly one day trips or few weeks.

2020
》 Visited Central Asia and spent only 300$ in one month on the whole trip transport-accommodation-food 🇰🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬
》Stood on the spanish steps in Italy 🇮🇹 without people.

2021-2022
》Visited every big city in Hungary 🇭🇺
》Survived a night in the woods while hiking there, and it was hunting time 🇭🇺
》We volunteered in a monestary in Macedonia, Kicevo! ⛪🇲🇰
》Wildcamping in the forest in Macedonia and Albania. 🇦🇱
》Doing a 25 hours bus ride inside just one country and survived it.
》Couchsurfing in one of the most dangerous Favelas in Rio 🇧🇷
》Got a CPF in Brazil 🇧🇷
》Traveled 8 month in South America (4 months only in Brazil 🇧🇷 )
》Traveled in Iraq and made lots of friends! 🇮🇶 Got into an amusement park there, we were in local tv, and in the radio!

2023
》Survived India without getting scammed! 🇮🇳 Many people try to say higher prices for foreigners, always found a way to negotiate which requires lots of patience!
》Entered Taj Mahal for FREE 🇮🇳
》We rode on top of a train in Bangladesh 🇧🇩
》Entered a mosque without a hijab in Bangladesh 🇧🇩
》Completed Seoul Trail in South Korea🇰🇷
》Traveled to 20 countries in one year in 2023 ✈️ including 3 continents!

2024
》Managed to stay for a month in Auckland, NZ 🇳🇿 with a really tight budget.

Teach, Learn, Share

We are traveling so this section is for our hosts ❤️🤗

➡️We love to talk about anything, so feel free to ask us about Hungary, Europe, or Syria, Venezuela.
➡️We can give you tips for traveling on a budget.
➡️We would love to cook for you 👩🏻‍🍳
➡️We can help in house chores. This is mostly interesting if you live in a house, we can help in gardening for example. 🌴 Or in cleaning, tidying your home. Moving furniture! Dávid used to work as a mover, and he is strong and capable of seeing the right angle for furniture in the house.

🐶😸Pet Owners! We do pet sitting and can help with feeding of walking your dog, cat, bird etc....

Hungarian, our language called Magyar is one of the hardest languages to learn.
https://dailynewshungary.com/official-hungarian-one-difficult-languages-world/

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can help in anything our host tells us to do: doing dishes, tidying, gardening. We can cook a meal together! 👩🏻‍🍳

I'm Working online 💻 if you host us and we need to exit your house during the day, I will find a café to work from. Or I'll work from your place if you don't mind. 🙏 We can still talk and have fun, I usually finish most of my work in the beginning of the shift, then I enjoy my time with my host 😁

I only work during weekdays 😌 I always have my Saturday and Sunday completely free, sometimes even Friday 😍

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hungary, Syrian Arab Republic, Venezuela