Update: no longer a full time traveler:’) I live in Hanoi now and I have my space open for surfers 🌼
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Salam, my name’s Mostafa(: I was born a traveler, or in Arabic; رحال . Since a young age and I’ve been dreaming of traveling, until one day, I took my first flight 🕊

Traveling has brought me an understanding, an inner awareness of myself, and the world I live in. It took me into a journey of divine love, cultivating a deep presence within myself while joyfully sharing it with everyone that I come across❤️
Every day is a bliss; most of the time I wake up without any plan; yet an intention to trust, and a prayer for my day to start and unfold gracefully🤍
Nothing makes me happier than listening to people’s stories, making connections, being curious, learning new things, and having new adventures🖤

I love sports, especially water & mountain sports. I journal, I fast, I meditate and I do yoga & breath work on a regular basis. I like to read, dance, contemplate in nature and be under the stars✨
My health comes first, I love cooking & I usually eat whole foods plant-based. I’m quite hygienic and a tea person 🌱 I try to be sustainable in my way of living, by avoiding plastic & being a less consumer. In a way to minimize my impact on our planet 🌍

Forever grateful to Allah, to the sun, to the moon, to the earth, to the skies, to the oceans, to the mountains and to the rocks & trees. Grateful to myself and to everyone who’s free & open, in touch with their inner love, seeking the light and living their life journey🙏🏽

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet vibrant people all over the world, share stories, listen to backgrounds and gain deeper understanding of every person and every place I come across.
Because life is ambiguous, i like to seek safety in other people and as for a man with no home, but for home to me wherever I lie my head.

Interests

Good conversations, good laughs, good music, good tea & wine, board games, late night drives, yoga flows, dancing till sunrise, midnight talks, family gatherings, community circles, festivals, concerts, live shows and events

• dancing
• cooking
• yoga
• movies
• music
• hiking
• rock climbing
• free diving
• jamming
• dixit

Music, Movies, and Books

My play list is super long and diverse 🎧 uplifting, soul, folk, reggae, indie..
Nick Mulvey, Stick Figure, Sticky Fingers, Jadu heart, Mose, L’imperatrice, Xavier Rudd, Tame Impala, Polo & Pan, The Dolly rocker movement, DOPE LEMON, Massive Attack, Yaima, Amaarae, Daft Punk, Anathema, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Radiohead, Parcels, MGMT, U2, Cigarettes after sex, Angus & Julia stone, Queen, Led zeppelin, Sigur ros, Ajeet Kaur, Sam Garrett, …جدل، مشروع ليلى، فيروز

Books 🕊
Forty rules of love, The alchemist, Siddhartha, Momo, The Prophet, Secrets of divine love, Kundalini yoga; the flow of eternal power, Tao teachings, Conversations with God, A New Earth and Mostafa Mahmoud books، وعمارة يعقوبيان

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Since 2018 and I’ve been living, traveling, pack-backing, hitchhiking, crossing boarders by land, sea or air. Having no home but finding home everywhere I go, traveling solo but never alone 🕊

Traveling timeline;

August, 2018
I left my country, Egypt, for the first time in my life. A 6 weeks journey ended up me living in Vietnam for three years; there I started a new life, had a journey of awakening, & truly started living 🇻🇳
I also traveled to 🇲🇾🇱🇦🇰🇭
I came back home on August 2021; I started solo traveling in Egypt 🇪🇬 mostly in Sinai

11/11/2022, after long patience
I flew to Europe with no plans but faith & trust. Being impulsive & spontaneously creating my journey on the way, in 11 weeks, I traveled to 40 cities in 8 countries, I’ve lived many stories & met dozens of people that touched my heart! I created a lifetime journey that I won’t ever forget 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇧🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇨🇭🇪🇸🇦🇹
I came back home on February 4th

27th April 2023,
Listening to my prayers 🙏🏽 I left home on a long journey, arriving to Saudi by boat. I was the first Egyptian to have visa on arrival by sea using my Schengen visa a week before it expires 🇸🇦
I spent few months traveling in the Arabian peninsula, from East to South, to West & North. I hitchhiked to Bahrain & crossed land boarders to Emirates on my feet 🇧🇭🇦🇪

30th August, I flew from Dubai to Tehran/Iran on a full moon night; One of the kindest people and the most welcoming underrated countries I’ve ever been to. I spent 50 days traveling in less than half of the country, planning to come back 🇮🇷

17th October, I land crossed to Armenia 🇦🇲 With three weeks visa, once finished I came to cross to Georgia afterwards. Yet I got rejected on the boarders and I had to come back 🇬🇪❌ hence overstaying my Armenian visa. My life turned upside down but fully certain I am exactly where I am supposed to be…
1st February 2024 🇦🇲It’s been more than three months, having a blast of a time, longer than I expected, wonderful connections, staying open for the right time to cross borders

21st March after 5 months of being in Armenia and on Newrooz “Persian new year” I felt my intuition bringing me back to Iran 🇮🇷 continuing my journey!
After another 50 days in Iran; absolutely stunned by the kindness and the diversity of the multi-cultural country, my experience was warm and fulfilling.

Longing to the sunny days, family and friends 🇪🇬 my traveling energy scale was drained, the idea of coming back home was more appealing ✨ Since I’ve started this journey and after 55 weeks, On May 13th, I took a flight from Tehran to Cairo, back home ❤️

August 29th 2024; after spending few months with my family, feeling grounded, Vietnam is calling again 🇻🇳 I took a flight and this time it feels different

Teach, Learn, Share

Into sharing insights, experiences, deep thoughts, mindfulness, human design, history, science and philosophy.

We can dive together in a yoga flow, meditate, cook or go for a city stroll.

I also teach English sometimes:)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Presence

Tea person(: “my special yogi tea, golden tea, herbal tea” also salads, soups, hummus, hugs

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Cambodia, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, Viet Nam