👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽 I share this account with Valentin my brother. He is a student of architecture of 20yo, in Clermont-Ferrand, in France. We use to do couchsurfing together. (Many of our references include Val as well, you can check).

🙋🏽‍♀️ I am a nomad, a backpacker who is constantly discovering the world. I travel in often difficult conditions, sleeping outside, in shelters, or asking for hospitality. Above all, I love this freedom of life and my independence. I chose this life, which is wonderful and sometimes difficult. I like to live and travel off the beaten track.
I like to constantly push my limits.
I like to discover countries by meeting locals, and sharing real moments together.
This wealth that the nomadic life brings me is priceless: it is the richness of the heart, of values, of experiences.
💌 If you like my vibe and think we could get along well, feel free to add/talk me on instagram : @_mathilde.da

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I used to travel sleeping on beach, on the ground, in airport, in hostel, in a car or a van (when I am lucky enough to have a car I sleep in it). Sometimes, when I don't have a CS host and lodging, I sleep on the street, in train stations or on public benches. So, even if you think your flat is too small or not good enough for a guest, it's better than being homeless.
I am looking for a new way to travel, by encounters. And while Couchsurfing in several places in Australia, in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu, and in Japan, I noticed that the encounters I had there had marked me forever. Some of my guests have become true friends, and meeting them changed my life.

Where I stayed on Couchsurfing : 2 hosts in Australia (Sydney), 2 hosts in Vanuatu (Efate and Santo), 2 hosts in Japan (Tokyo and Kyoto), 3 hosts in Italy (Rome, Bologna, Turino), 1 host in England, 3 hosts in Portugal, 1 host in France, 3 hosts in Guadeloupe, 4 host in Turkey (Istanbul, Konya, Mardin, Antalya).

I was welcomed by hospitality
without app : 3 hosts in New Caledonia (Lifou) and 2 families in Australia and England, 1 in Turkey.

Interests

I love :
🌏 discover new cultures, learn new ways of living through my encounters, learning about history, geography, sociology, cultures, and religions, voyager en backpacking
✏️ write books about my travels and my life experiences
🎨 draw line art and paint watercolors
🎒 have a minimalist lifestyle and try to fit all my stuff into my backpack or my future van
🏕️ hiking, especially in high mountain, do wild camping everywhere
🌿 observing nature, animals, learning about flora and fauna, learning how to keep up with wildlife, snorckling, feeling a true connection with Mother Nature, been a vegetarian for 7 years
🧘🏽‍♀️ practice méditation mindfulness, yoga, dance
✊🏽 solidarity, tolerance, non-violent activism
🎟️ make most of my trips on the spur of the moment, without a plan, with just a one-way ticket in my pocket

• wildlife
• architecture
• vegetarian
• yoga
• meditation
• minimalism
• hiking
• backpacking
• snorkeling
• geography
• medicine
• sociology
• hitchhiking
• travelling
• mother nature
• spirituality
• vegetarianism
• feminism
• mindfulness
• mindfulness meditation
• hospitality
• wild camping
• sophrologie
• tribes
• alternative lifestyles
• nature walks
• house sitting
• travelling around the world
• other cultures
• campervan
• vanlife
• hypnotherapy
• jungle trekking
• drawing and painting
• camping and hiking
• nomadic life
• travel books
• hystory
• writing books
• refugees welcome
• lgbtqia+ rights

Music, Movies, and Books

- Movies : science fiction movies (Avatar, Interstellar, Inception, Black Mirror, Seven Pounds, TWD)
- Music : rap, reggae, zouk, shatta, reggaeton, afrobeats, RnB, lofi, classical music
- Book : personal development and psychology

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- walk and camp 4 days on an erupting volcano in Vanuatu (Tanna, volcano Yasur)
- living in a tribe on remote Pacific islands
- swim with a manta ray, sharks, poisonous snakes and turtles in New Caledonia
- hiked and climbed in the virgin jungle in Vanuatu (in Santo)
- saw whale migration in the Tasman Sea
- be welcomed with ceremony and offerings by a tribal chief
- traveling by night bus, getting the wrong destination, waking up in another country (waking up in Germany instead of Sweden)
- be arrest by the police when I was doing a protest in the street
- getting stuck in my van for 10 hours stuck in the sand in New Zealand
- go to a Pacific island Lifou without accommodation or means of transport, move around by hitchhiking and sleep outside on the ground or in the house of people I met on the road
- be welcomed by the Hindu community in Singapore and Fiji to take part in religious ceremonies
- fly a gyrocopter over the world's largest continuous barrier reef rainforest
- be invited to meditate in the great sacred Buddhist temple of Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
- on a road trip to Fiji (Viti Levu), I got my car stuck in cow dung at night in a very remote countryside, and was rescued by a pastor who got my car out of there and put me up in his church
- saw baby turtle eggs hatching at dusk on a beach in New Caledonia
- saw the bioluminescent ocean sparkle at night in New Caledonia and bioluminent caves and forests in New Zealand (like in Avatar!!)
- bungee jump head first into a canyon in New Zealand
- winter trekking in the high mountains of New Zealand, sleeping in a hut
- eating a tarantula
and mooore... everyday is an adventure, hope to live my next adventures with you guysss!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you a lot of things I've seen and received in all my life experiences and travels if you take the time to discover me

I want to learn new ways of life and new ways to travel, I think there are as many ways to travel as there are ways to live on earth

I can share amazing moments, hiking, snorckling, eat together, I think couchsurfing is a wonderful community, I love making friends from all over the world

What I Can Share with Hosts

- I can offer you the most precious and priceless thing a human being can give : my time
- a smile
- a friendship
- share my travel experiences
- share my mistakes
- give tips for backpacking on a low budget
- make visits together
- have a meal or a drink together
- teach you french
- host you back in France or in french islands
- I can be your next travelling companion
- give you the contacts of my friends around the world, so that you too can be hosted by them
- I write a personal travel book about each of my trips. If sometimes I can't offer you much, you will at least have the merit of being part of the book of my life... ✨

!!!!🚩Ps. Don't try to flirting with me. I'm not here for that. And to all the men who write to me to try to flirt with me and offer to sleep "in their bed" in exchange : you definitely don't have your place in the couchsurfer community, your blackmail is awful you deserve to be banned, question yourself, seriously, gfy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Guyana, New Caledonia