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Overview

  • 134 references 76 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning French, Russian
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Journalist / Writer
  • Ciencias de la Comunicación, UBA (Argentina).
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About Me

NOW TRAVELLING AROUND INDIA

I have travelled in 2014, eight months around Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Rwanda, Burundi, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Swaziland, Botswana, Zambia...) meeting a lot of amazing people from Couchsurfing.
Then, in 2019, I stayed 14 months travelling around Europe, Middle East and Central Asia (Afghanistan, Iran, Oman, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Georgia...). I created a Twitter profile where I was doing threads about my travel: now I have more than 200K followers there. I wrote 2 books about my travels called "Crónicas Africanas" (African Chronichles) and "Periodistán" (Journalistan).
I became a TV host in Argentina after the travel through Central Asia and I have my TedX talk but I resigned because I wanted to travel again.

So, in February 2022, I started a new long trip around beautiful India.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love CS. I love meeting nice and warm people. I love learning and teaching new things. I love, most than anything in this world, feeling the wind in my face.

Interests

I prefer that my back hurts for carrying a backpack than for sitting in an office.
ALWAYS.

I love reading about the countriesI am going, trying to understand them: their people, their culture, their traiditions, their politics, etc. Always with a lot of respect.

  • writing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • journalism
  • photo
  • journeys

Music, Movies, and Books

Latin American music, from Argentinian tango to Brazilian samba or colombian Cumbia.
I was born in the most rhytmic continent in the world :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-9 months of hitchhiking around Latin America, from Argentina to Nicaragua.
-9 months of hitchhiking in Africa, going to potentially dangerous places as Somalia and DRC.
-14 months of travelling from Spain to Kyrgyzstan, going through the 2 most beautiful countries that I’ve ever stayed: Iran and Afghanistan.

BEING INTERVIEWED FOR DIEGO MARADONA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGKXOVb4CUo&t=1s

Teach, Learn, Share

-Journalism
-Spanish
-Football
-Travelling
-Writing

What I Can Share with Hosts

Always a smile, a good conversation, hundreds of stories, argentinian food, a lot of respect and tons of Latin American good energy :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guyana, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Rwanda, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Colombia

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