My favourite trips:

2025 Afghanistan trip (Kazakhstan: Pavlodar, Astana, Balkhash lake, Shymkent; Uzbekistan: Tashkent; Tajikistan: Hudjand, Ayni, trip along the river Zarafshon, mountain track to Gharm, Dushanbe; Afghanistan: Shirkhan, Kunduz, Mazari-Sharif, Maymana, Herat, Kandahar, Gazni, Kabul, Kunduz; Tajikistan: Ayni, Panjakent; Uzbekistan: Samarkand, Tashkent; Kazakhstan: Shymkent, Almaty, Semey; Russia: Rubtsovsk, Kamen-na-Obi)

2024 China trip (Kazakhstan: Semey, Almaty; China: Yining, Ürümqi, Xining, mountain track around Amne Machin, Chengdu, Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing, Inner Mongolia; Mongolia: Ulan-Bator; Russia: Baikal lake, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk)

2023 Wonderful mountain track in Kyrgyzstan (Джукучак р. / Ашуу-Тёр пер. (3700) / Ашуу-Кашка-Суу р. / Кашка-Суу пер. (3890) / пик Марс (4350) / пер. (4020) / Ит-Тиши р. -пер. (3875) / Джууку р.)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I know hostels have high and unfair prices, especially for those travelers who need a simple place for a night.

Interests

• classical music

Music, Movies, and Books

Most of all I like «In Search of Lost Time» by Marcel Proust. But the writer I care more is Platonov Andrey (the greatest!)

My favorite directors of cinema are:
- Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), My American Uncle (1980), Same Old Song (1997))
- Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Scenes from a Marriage (1974), Autumn Sonata (1978), Fanny and Alexander (1982), Saraband (2003))
- Lars von Trier (The Idiots (1998), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Nymphomaniac (2013))
- Michael Haneke (71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994), Funny Games (1997), Das weiße Band (2009))
- and others. And here is my Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/patifonik/

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, China, Tajikistan