CURRENT MISSION

Wating for the whales.

ABOUT ME

You can check my blog to learn more about me. It had started a blog as a journal of my travels and turned into something bigger with 22K+ followers ok Facebook :)
http://www.bigezipgelelim.biz

My first experience as a guest started with our South America tour. And continued with Southeast Asia tour. I can say that I am an easygoing person and trying to meet people from different cultures, learn their lifestyles and their country's food...

When we host, we love to spend time with our guests, show them around, do some activities together (see our Couch Information) but also we always respect all the privacy our guest needs. We like to do our daily routines with our guests so that they can penetrate more into our culture. Actually we try to do the same when we travel.

Most of the time I travel spontaneous and slow. I like to spend time with our hosts, with locals and discover their culture. I usually follow our host's suggestions rather than a guidebook's "tourist attractions" checklist. I am keen on tasting local food, visiting local markets and practice local daily routines.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is a journey, enjoy it!!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed at many many CS'ers and HC members. Hosted many members also.

Interests

travelling, cycling, postcrossing, experiencing local food & drinks, cooking, decorating cookies, puzzle, swimming, watching TV series, reading and editing books, attending concerts and festivals, heavy metal, theater, photography...

• dogs
• fish
• culture
• books
• theater
• photography
• concerts
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• walking
• drinking
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• blogging
• cycling
• fishing
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Star Wars series, The Big Lebowski, all Al Pacino films, all Stanley Kubrick films, all Jack Nicholson films, all Meg Ryan films, The Godfather series

Music: mostly progressive metal; I am a fan of Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, Queensryche, Opeth...
also like sone relaxing music; aeon spoke, kings of convenience, blackmore's night...

Books: favorite writer is Oguz Atay from Turkey. Also a fan of Haruki Murakami, Jeffrey Archer, Ayn Rand, Salman Rushdie...
Favourite book: Don Quijote

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-dog sledge, ice hotel, seeing aurora @Kiruna - 300km above the arctic circle
-roller coasters @Universal Studios/Orlando
-İshak Paşa Palace @Agri/Turkey
-diving @Kaş/Turkey
-walking 3kms in a cave and experiencing absolute darkness
-seeing Macchu Pichu & climbing to Wayna Pichu
-travelling from Atacama Desert to Salar de Uyuni with a 4x4 vehicle and sleeping at a salt hotel at 4500m altitude
-spending 4 days ON the Amazon River.
-piranha fishing although the only fish i could get was not a piranha
-having been to Kiruna (northernmost city) and Ushuaia (southernmost city)
-scuba diving with mantas
-climbing to the crater of an active volcano

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Myanmar, Peru, Philippines, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey, Uruguay

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