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Overview

  • 66 references 57 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning Spanish
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2015
  • Traveler
  • Nizhny Novgorod state University, journalist
  • From Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation
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About Me

Hello, everyone!

📌 Right now in big trip around Patagonia and Usyaya🌄

My name is Veronika (short name is Vika).

Who I am?

I'm a writer under my backpack.

I am the author of many stories and texts in Russian. Unfortunately, I started speaking English late and cannot yet translate my travel stories from Russian. But I will definitely do it so that my friends from all over the world can read them!

I am a mountain guide and alpine equipment consultant.

My parents started taking me on hikes early. I visited all the mountain ranges of Russia as a child, and when I grew up I began to climb in other countries. I have been on the volcanoes of Indonesia, tracks in the Himalayas, Olympus in Greece, the Pamir Highway in Tajikistan, on the highest peak in Europe, Elbrus, and Everest Base Camp. Now, I dream to walk the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mexican border to the Canadian one.

I am a person of the world, though I was born and grew up in the closed country of the USSR.

Traveling showed me how wonderful it is that there are so many different people, languages, cultures, and religions on this planet. I truly believe that traveling is a significant part of the spiritual development of any given society. That is why the whole world is my true value, the intrinsic one.

If you need to know more about me, please, welcome to my Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ne_fuck_t/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Everyone should find time to see the world in the eyes of other people, not from a tour bus.

Interests

Yoga, hitchhiking, bagpacking, run, swimming, rafting on mountains rivers, climbing trekking, hiking in the mountains, the old fortless, to live by the sea, photography, outdoor video, literature, foreign languages, cinema art house, movies, boogie woogie, religions, history, philosophy.

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • literature
  • photography
  • yoga
  • news
  • movies
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • kayaking
  • track and field
  • history
  • religion
  • hitchhiking
  • rivers
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Russian Rock, rock-n-roll, Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita", J.R.R. Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings", Dostoevsky, Sergey Dovlatov "Zone", the brothers Strugatsky "The doomed city", Alexander Blok "The Scythians", poems of Nicolay Gumilef, all books of Haruki Murakami.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have been in Everest Base Camp at 5463 meters in Nepal.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, China, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Nepal, Philippines, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine

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