Hello there! Currently exploring Tanzania 🇷🇼 on our East Africa expedition

We are Shishira (F) and Navneeth (M) - you can call us Shish & Nav 😃 - and we're a married couple from Bangalore, a city in southern India! We love travel (which is how we came here on CS 😅) and curious about life in all countries.

Oh, we're vegetarian 🌱 (don't eat meat, chicken, fish, etc)

We are currently on a quest to travel across Africa over the next few months! We left home in May 2022 and have been on the road since. Our goal is to visit as many countries over the course of the next year to experience the beauty of life. 👫🏻

We previously worked in finance jobs (so we can teach you about investing) and started writing a blog to share free budget travel tips and guides to make it easy for others to travel! But, when we left home last year to travel for a year, we began documenting our daily life on YouTube to remember this once-in-a-lifetime adventure!

Our life: https://YouTube.com/thebackpacksters

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Looking to meet locals who can teach about the way of life, local sights, history and everyday life in their city! If you invite us to stay with you, we're very well behaved surfers.

Interests

• technology
• cars
• investing
• geography
• geopolitics
• history
• international relations
• budget travel
• travel
• food
• film
• finance

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

· Swam with a million sardines and then with six hungry whale sharks (they were bigger than a school bus)
· Went canyoning in the grandest waterfalls in Creole Africa
· Hiked up a foresty mountain in Laos in torrential rain
· Climbed an active volcano during eruption (and then ran back down)
· Explored the northern most city in the world (over the Arctic Circle)
· Convinced my wife to travel with only seven kgs for a year

Teach, Learn, Share

· Investing: worked in investment banking - can teach you investing
· Budget travel: can help you find cheap flights and share travel tips and tricks
· Blogging: done it for six years - can share all learnings

What I Can Share with Hosts

· Stories: We have many incredible and dangerous stories to share from our travels around the world!
· Food: we can prepare south Indian dishes if you have a kitchen (and also teach you the recipes!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Burundi, Cambodia, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Philippines, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Réunion, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam