CURRENT MISSION

We want to meet people, share good moments, discover the world, Showing the beauty of Iran to travellers and raising our kid as an adventurer.

ABOUT ME

We are a family of three (Abbas, Zahra & our baby girl Ava). Ava born on 26th Jan 2015. She is a cute & friendly baby, talk to her & in 20 seconds she'll smile at you.
Traveling is the joy of our life and we've traveled all around of Iran then to the other countries. We are nature lovers, Abbas love to take photos while Zahra loves to rest in nature, about Ava, we need to wait till she can speak and tell us what she likes the most.
we've shared our experiences and some pictures of traveling around Iran in Abbas's Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/abbas.akbari.712

If we got any chance to travel (even 1 day) we wouldn't loose it. Ava (our baby girl) experienced her fist camping travel when she was only three months old.
We've learnt many thing from our hosts about traveling even with kids and we want to continue discovering different people and cultures with our kid.
We like living in old fashion style when people cared for their own traditions, respect elders, take life easy.
Although we like the ideas of minimalist, raising kid in Montessori way & etc.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is a journey, Enjoy it, Do Not Stop

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, holding meetings, Hanging out with traveller and showing them around of my city

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

-Hosting over 100 people from all around the world
-Bunjee jumping encouraged by a british couple for the first time
-Driving more than 4000Km in 9 days with people hardly know at the beginig, hardly say goodbye at the end
- Finding a traveller in the middle of a mega city without phone

Interests

Fruits : we have second stomach for fruits. how could life be without fruits.
Travelling, Nature photography, Mountaineering, Hiking, Air Sport, Driving, Reading poems, Visiting family, Music, Movies and most importantly Ava (our bsby girl) are our life .

• poetry
• fashion
• photography
• beauty
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• hiking
• camping
• adventure races
• mountaineering
• sports

Music, Movies, and Books

Books :
The Alchemist, Brida, The Fifth Mountain, Veronica Decides to Die (Most of Paulo Coelho's books)
100 years loneliness, Yi Jing

Movies :
i(Abbas)'m addicted to movies. Between more 2500 movies i have , it's difficult to choose but for sure i hate horror movies. But i can remember some names like Beach, Once, Motorcycle Dairies, Heat, 12 years a slave, Katyn, Im Juli, Home(Documentary), Samsara (Documentary), Baraka (Documentary)
Zahra loves iranian poems and hates dark movies. She is an artist (Moarragh)

Music :
Soundtracks and themes are our favorites, Buddha Bar, Oliver Shanti, Sarah Brightman, Dido, Enigma, Era, Axiom of choice, .... and Iranian Traditional Musician : Seraj, Shajarian, Nazeri, Ali Ghorbani, ....
But some music we will never forget : It's my life (Jon bon Jovi), Dove la More (Cher), Question of Honor (Sarah Brightman), Angel (Massive Attack), The Day Before We Went To War (Dido)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching life in silence : sunset on the sea, raising of clouds over mountain, a plant in the middle of desert, a mother who plays with her baby, ......

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: We just can say no matter how much we know, there are still more to know. So, it's better to say we love to share what we learned.

Learn: In Iran we have an Idiom that say : Every Head Has Another Thought. So when you come to our home let us know about anything you love to share. We like to learn.

Share: All the things we know and learned from our society. We like answer any of your questions about iranian lifestyle.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Helping them for getting iranian (if they need) and give them some tips about their travel plan in Iran.
We will cook for them traditional Iranian food (vegetarian and non vegetarian)
A gift (usually an iranian handcraft) just to remember us.
And finally our honestly neverending friendship.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Iraq, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Iran

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