CURRENT MISSION

Be happy. Be helpful to people.

ABOUT ME

My name is Svetlana. I travel with my best friend Olesia. I'm young movie maker, and Olesia is good at cooking Russian cuisine ;)

Some facts about my life experience:

• Jumped twice from 1000 meters with a parachute (Russia);
• Flown once as a co-pilot on a sports plane (Russia);
• Flown a hang-glider to shoot a video from a bird's-eye view (Russia)
• Lived in a camp, slept in a tent, cooked food on fire (Russia);
• Gone rafting on a rough river (Russia);
• Climbed the Crimea Mountains on a horseback (Ukraine);
• Worked as a photojournalist with a temperature of 40 C, under the scorching sun for two days (Ukraine);
• Been engaged with snorkeling in the Red Sea (Egypt)
• Walked on Canyon in an ancient Petra (Jordan)
• Ridden a sled dog in the forest above the Arctic Circle in minus 27 C, met there with Santa Claus (Lapland, Finland);
• Hiked the mountains of the Alps in a fog and rainy weather, to a height of 3500m (France)
• Ridden a quad in a desert
• Blown soap bubbles on the roof of Milan Duomo Cathedral (Italy)
• Learnt to bake pita bread in Egypt and rice Hoppers in Sri Lanka
• Lived for a month in Sri Lanka. Drove up and down the island by car, buses, local tuk- tuks, trains .
• Been to the cloud forest, rain forest, hiked to the top of the monolith "Mount Sigiriya”, walked in Horton Plains and been in a place called "The End of the World"
• Bathed in five seas and an ocean
• Ridden an elephant and a bull in the jungle, a camel in the desert
• Watched whales, dolphins and turtles in the Indian Ocean
• Shaken a hand of an octopus
• Walked through the valleys of Cappadocia and Pamukkale
• Chirred golden leaves in Riga
• Spent the New Year's holiday travelling by the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; and Poland
• Worked one day as a volunteer in the social soup kitchen in Jerusalem - cleaned and cut 200 kg of vegetables
• At the age of 20, learned skating, rollerblading and cycling. Participated in roller race in St. Petersburg - from the Palace Square to the Victory Square along the main streets of the city in tribute to the Victory in World War II
• Done a lot of professional and psychological trainings in various training centers;
• Gone down into caves in Russia and Egypt;
• Visited 24 countries - and many more will visit in the future!

The countries which I have been to

Western Europe:
Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Italy, Vatican, France, Monaco and Monte Carlo, Switzerland

Eastern Europe:
Belarus, Ukraine

Baltics:
Latvia , Lithuania, Estonia, Poland

Scandinavia:
Finland, Lapland, Sweden

Asia:
Sri Lanka, Turkey, Israel, Jordan

Africa:
Egypt

Plans for the future:

Malaysia , Burma, Laos , Singapore, Indonesia , Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela , Africa, China , Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Montenegro, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia

How to contact me:
If you have any questions about any country where I’ve been, please, ask them – I’ll be happy to answer.
If you want to meet somewhere to exchange impressions, experiences and just chat – write to me!

PHILOSOPHY

Do good things

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Сouchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Moscow, Sri Lanka

Interests

We like to travel
Watch and make movies,
Listen to music
Cook tasty things
Rollerblading and biking

• dogs
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• equestrian
• camping
• snorkeling
• sports
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Like:
business literature
biographies of famous personalities,
psychology,
magazines,
fiction

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Most of all in life I'm impressed by diversity of nature.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you cooking.
I can help you to make plan of a trip to countries where I've already been.
I like storytelling and listening

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Egypt, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, Sri Lanka