Hi There! I am Manan ( Proud Indian) and 3 months back I left job my as a management consultant job travel the world. 🌍 ✈️

In last 2 months I have travelled to Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal and now I am backpacking across Europe starting from Amsterdam, Netherlands. (You can see my Eurotrip plan in photos)

My style of travelling is non-touristy, slow and unplanned focusing on local culture and history.

I can speak English, Hindi and German.

My tentative backpacking plan:
June: 🇰🇪 🇹🇿
August: 🇳🇵
September: 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇩🇰
October: 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 🇫🇮 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇷🇴 🇧🇬
November: 🇷🇸 🇲🇰 🇦🇱 🇽🇰
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You can follow my journey on my Instagram: @Hey.Manan

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am on Couchsurfing for 3 reasons:

1- To meet and connect with interesting people. I feel the best way to know about a foreign culture and history is to live and experience life like a local.

2- Make new friends and hang out with like minded people across the world as I am a solo backpacker. (Would love to host them back when you are in India)

3- Free accommodation in return helping out in all possible ways I can. ( I have worked as a management consultant & fitness trainer and I think i can help you out in these areas)

Interests

My Interest Areas:

1) WeightLifting & Training: I love to workout not for physical fitness but for mental fitness as well. These days i am focusing on calisthenics (Body-Weight lifting). I have also trained and helped my friends to achieve their fitness goals.

2) Travelling & Culture: Have been to around 27 countries and love to connect with locals.

3) Learning languages and finding the commonalities & differences between them.

4) Ukulele: I started from Guitar but being such a big instrument I shifted to Ukulele. I wont say i am great at it but yeah good is the right word.

• culture
• photography
• coffee
• fitness
• working out
• backpacking
• history
• languages
• solo travel
• travelling
• backpacker
• gym
• europe
• vlogging
• eastern europe
• fitness training

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

Rock & Metal while working out
Bollywood, POP while travelling
Jazz and Chill while making love
Reggae while working

Movies:
Thriller, Comedy, SuperHeros, Historical

Books:

Self Development
Fiction ( Cause i think non-fiction is top boring)
Management & Finance

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Taken a decision to become the first Indian to travel all the countries of the world (27/196 ✅)

If you want to be a part of this amazing adventure & my life host me. 😊

Teach, Learn, Share

5 things I can teach or share:

1- Tell you travel stories all day & night long from my travels in so many countries.

2- How to plan an end to end Indian Travel Itinerary (I have travelled across India both for work & travel as well)?

3- How to pen down a plan to achieve your fitness & life goals?

4- How to learn languages fast?

5- How to hack time/ time management skills?

What I Can Share with Hosts

All the above.
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1st beer/ coffee on me
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Some souvenirs which I gather on my way and some masala tea which I carry with me while travelling.
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A hand written "Thank You" note

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Mauritius, Nepal, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, India