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  • 61 references 31 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Chinese (Simplified), French
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Traveller, Freelancer
  • Dipl. Electrician
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I do travel around the world, in different and crazy ways.
Make peoples happy and have a good time together.
See different culture, religion, try the local food and explore some countries in this world in the most local way and not into the touristic stream.

I love to get lost in some old dark streets where you never know what is at the other side.
ABOUT ME

After eight years I finished with work and study. Now I do my dream and travel around the world since June 2014.
I love to meet locals in different places and countries. My goal is do work in some places from time to time also help other peoples and make them happy whenever it is possible, then a smile from someone is more then every payment.
I don't like to walk the same way back to my home or hostel, because every way or direction has something new, interesting and has to be explored.
And I do a lot more....... Find it out.

PHILOSOPHY

Help and make people happy with some little things. Because life is too short to be sad.

You can do everything if you are willing to do it.

It is impossible until it is done...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I think it is the best way to be with locals and you feel there puls and get more infomation about the culture or some nice places to visit.

It is something totaly different to the life in a Hostel or Guesthouse and I love that different way of life...

I am always fascinated how helpfull, friendly and hospility Host around the world are. Sometimes I would like to jump back home to Switzerland and stay there, waiting that all my Host and friends coming to my place and I can give them back what they did to me. But since Summer 2014 I was not back home. So maybe if I have a flat somewhere on the way I would like to Host someone as well...

My first Couchsurfing experience was in South Korea and this stay changed everything...

Interests

culture, tradicional food/people, landscape, nature, wild animals, some good conversation, in your daily life and many things more

Music, Movies, and Books

I like to listen local music or whatever comes out of the stereo.

Movies: Matrix, 7 Lives, Lord of the Rings, The Island, Into the Wild, The Mentalist....

Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Momford & Sons, Coldplay, Kodaline, The Bollands, Bon Iver and everythin which makes me happy and smiling while I am listening to it...

Books: I love more talking then reading... :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was two weeks into the wild in Alaska I must find the way back without map. And you never now if you servival the next day. That was adrenaline pur.

Hikking and horse trekking in Monoglia was incredible.

Eating a pig brain in Chengdu was funny too.

Drove with the transsiberian railway through Russia.

Motorbiketrip alone in Cambodia, Loas (Jungle) and Vietnam

Crossing the boarder from Myanmar to India overland.
Which needs a specail permit and is a bit crazy trip.

Did the Annapurna Trekking in Nepal

Went up alone to the Stok Kangri 6153M hight in India

Hitchhiking most of the places I have been. (most beautiful one was Manali to Leh north India)

crossing the Indian Ocean from Sri Lank to Thailand on a Sailingboat
hmmm and many more

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you nothing, all you know is somewhere inside you.
I can show you only where you can find it.

But I do have a lot of traveling experience in different countries, religions and cultures. I think I can help you with all kind of questions you have about traveling and how to do it...

What I Can Share with Hosts

A lot of stories, happyness and my time...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Liechtenstein, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Martinique, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland

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