Hi! I’m Shuli from China — a globetrotter, lifelong learner, and eternal optimist.

I’ve visited 93 countries and regions, including the Arctic and Antarctic. I’m deeply grateful to each of my couchsurfing hosts; without them, I could never have traveled this far.

I'm a book nerd. When I'm not traveling, I read every day.

I write novels and poems in my spare time. I hope I can write the best stories about you and others. For me, writing poetry is as important as being loved.

I truly love people's smiles because I also love to laugh. Everyone can achieve their dreams, and so can you. I hope you are always in love and happiness.

Travel Experience:
2025: United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, 2.5 months.

2024–2025: 12 West African countries (Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali), Jeju Island, 5 months.

2023: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, 4 months.

2019: 5 East African countries (Kenya, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania), 3 months.

2018: 15 European countries (Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia), 4 months.

2017: Iran, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Georgia, Ukraine, 1 month.

2016–2017: Macao, 12 American countries and the Antarctica (USA, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Antarctica, Chile, Bolivia, Peru), 6 months.

2015: 7 Schengen countries (Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein), 3 months.

2014: 7 European countries (Turkey, Greece, Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, France, Monaco), 58 days.

2012: Alaska & the Arctic, 2.5 months.

2009–2010: 12 countries/regions in Southeast Asia (Nepal, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China), 1 year.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like using Coushsurfing when I travel. I think this is the best way to know local people's life and culture. It's interesting things to see people all over the world how to live and love.

I have excellent experience on couchsurfing.

I love couchsurfing.

Interests

https://www.douban.com/doulist/1364866/

https://www.douban.com/doulist/151959143/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003753904035

Instagram: smilily00

• poetry
• reading
• hiking
• solo travel
• adventure travel
• mountains
• adventure

Music, Movies, and Books

Books and Authors: I love literature, especially the world literature of the 19th century. Cao Xueqin, A Dream of Red Mansions; Laozi, The Dao De Jing; Li Bai；Lao She; Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov; Emily Dickinson; Joseph Conrad; Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha; Baruch Spinoza; Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Franz Kafka; Anton Chekhov; Charles Dickens; Boris Pasternak; Osip Mandelstam; Friedrich Hölderlin; Rumi; T.S. Eliot; Jane Austen; Gustave Flaubert ; Erich Maria Remarque, Thor Heyerdahl, Paul Celan, Wallace Stevens, Montaigne, Sappho, Agatha Christie, James Herriot; J.R.R. Tolkien; Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul.

Musician: Favorite folk music. 苏阳, 张智, Johann Sebastian Bach, Quadro Nuevo, Jane Birkin, Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot, Eleni Karaindrou, たまきこうじ ，Luigi Tenco, Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Armik, Govi, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Simon & Garfunkel, The Carpenters, The Brothers Four, Sting, Perry Como, Jason Mraz, Gorillaz, Linkin Park.

Film Directors: Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Buster Keaton, Louis de Funès, Eldar Ryazanov, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Luc Besson, Pedro Almodóvar, Giuseppe Tornatore.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Free Teaching in a rural area of China for three months.

Watching the aurora in Alaska: seeing the green aurora dancing across the sky, I felt as if nature were composing a poem.

Trekking in the Everest Base Camp (EBC) and Mount Annapurna in Nepal, reaching over 5,000 meters in the Himalayan mountain range.

Staying in Indian-administered Kashmir boathouse for a week, I was deeply impressed by the stunning Dal Lake. I also traveled through North and South India for two and a half months.

Teach, Learn, Share

The simplest ways to stay healthy are ear rubbing, tooth tapping, and heel-standing.

There is a well-known Chinese TCM doctor named Zhang Baoxun, whose Weibo homepage link is https://weibo.com/u/2282201403. Actually, when we have health problems like colds, fevers, etc., we usually check this page for solutions—basically, no medication is required. I can show you how to practice these methods.

I am a Chinese kung fu practitioner and also a sixth-generation disciple of Baguazhang (Eight Trigram Palm). I have many fellow disciples from different martial arts schools, and they can teach you kung fu in Beijing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook Chinese dishes for the host.

I am studying traditional Chinese medicine, and I know how to treat colds, motion sickness, coughs, and fevers.

I have a beautiful life. I'm optimistic and lucky. I want to make the world a better place.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Albania, Antarctica, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, England, Estonia, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Rwanda, San Marino, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales, Western Sahara

Countries I’ve Lived In

China

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