My name's Lara-Scarlett. I live in Paris. After studying archaeology at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre, I travel the world: the Trans-Siberian, the Silk Road, or the Balkans, the Middle East (Iran, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Oman, Emirates, Turkey). I let encounters guide my travels. In contact with local populations, I became passionate about ethnology and photography. I am interested in the world around me and its issues, a recurring theme: the destruction of heritage.

Reaching out to others, believing in your dreams, overcoming challenges, getting to know yourself, understanding the world, this is what triggered my travels.

The culmination of all my encounters around the world, after seeing the best and the worst, was wanting to give meaning to my approach and pass it on.

I am deeply convinced that our heritage can be vectors of peace, understanding, tolerance between peoples, and freedom.

For future generations, being interested in our heritage, in its preservation, is not about looking to the past, it is about preparing the world of tomorrow.

By working together, heritage, in all its forms, offers a universal dimension, a unifying power, what we need most to build a sustainable world.

After having crossed Iraq, Syria and Kurdistan in 2016, having seen how fragile our heritage was in the face of what the former Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, called "cultural cleansing", I decided to get involved and found Héritage & Civilisation in 2017.

Our association develops awareness-raising, preservation and heritage transmission programs, particularly for young people. Our actions are part of an intercultural dialogue with young people from all over the world.

My Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/larascarlettgervais
My Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/lara.scarlett.9
My Linkedin : https://fr.linkedin.com/in/lara-scarlett-gervais-3b949a166

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm on Couchsurfing to meet peole, to share our cultures, to learn about the customs.

Interests

My interests are diverse. I like going to the cinema, to the theater. I did classical dance so I like to go to see ballets. I like to walk, wander, discover. One of my passions is photography.

Some little interviews, articles and video:
TV5MONDE https://youtu.be/yj9aLC10aho?feature=shared
Sabah7Dersi https://youtu.be/GF78c5_GnOc?feature=shared
TEDx https://youtu.be/-E7gqZ8u9ts?feature=shared
J’aime mon patrimoine https://youtu.be/B-28RNs2pSE?feature=shared
Monumental Tour https://www.facebook.com/share/v/AXDtjLo6uxczRuk1/?mibextid=KsPBc6
Le Figaro https://www.lefigaro.fr/photos/2018/11/16/01013-20181116ARTFIG00261-lara-scarlett-gervais-des-photos-au-service-du-patrimoine.php

• culture
• theater
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• chocolate
• movies
• traveling
• archeology
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

I have so many famous movies: Magnolia, Human traffic, Forrest Gump, Alphaville, Crazy, Whiplash, It'wonderfull life, Jersey boy, Timbuktu, the Thomas Crown affair, Alabama Monroe, A clockwork orange, Grand Budapest Hotel, A twelves years a slave, This is not a film, Dallas buyers club, Fargo and a lot...

I admire Directors like Terrence Malick, wong kar wai, Tim Burton, Jean-jacques Anneau, Wes Anderson, Ken Loach, Stanley Kubrick, Monty Python...

My father gave me two famous surname Lara Scarlett, Lara related to Doctor Jivago and Scarlett to Gone with the Wind.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

So many... ;)
- I slept on the wall of China
- the ascent of Mount Ararat.
- evacuation of the Palmyra museum with Syrian archaeologists in 2016.
- border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2022

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach french.
I like cooking, I do some delicious chocolate pie...
I traveled a lot so I have so many stories about so many different country to tell.
I like to speak, share and to understand some different culture.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Laos, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Switzerland