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Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
@akash-malik
Member since 2016
📍Da Nang Currently riding across Vietnam 🇻🇳 on a motorbike. My back seat is always available for adventure seekers. I am Akash from Delhi, and I have traveled solo for 400+ days (on and off) from mid 2017 to mid 2019. I have stayed in more than 100 different backpacker's hostels in India and abroad. - My first international solo trip was to Thailand. I fell in love with the country and visited Thailand 3 more times, rented an apartment in Chiang Mai later and made some good memories there. - I backpacked Vietnam for 2 months starting from Ho Chi Minh City (South) to Hanoi (North) in 2019. Second time I did the same for 1 month in 2023. - I crossed 2 different land borders to enter Bhutan and Myanmar from India. - I took bike riding classes in Nepal and rode on the streets of Vietnam. - I backpacked Sikkim (NE India) for a month in 2018. In 2019, I moved to Sikkim and started working there as a travel consultant, lost my job to the pandemic later. 2017 - Thailand, and traveled a lot in India. 2018 - Bhutan, UAE, Thailand, Nepal, Northeast India. 2019 - Vietnam, Thailand, North India, lived in Northeast India, Myanmar. 2020 - Singapore, Philippines, different parts of India. 2021 - Backpacked South India for 2 months. Spent time traveling in Northeast India. 2022 - Northeast India mostly. 2023 - Vietnam, North India. 2024-2025 - I didn’t get to travel much. 2025 - Nepal, Jodhpur, Thailand 2026 - Thailand, Vietnam.
Interested in Cats
Interested in Comedy
Fluent in English
Learning Nepali
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
Here on CS, I am not looking for travel companions or free beds to crash in, I am here to meet people from across the world and locals, to learn about their culture. When I am in their country, I don't want to stand out... I would like to blend in.
Music, Movies, and Books
Music: Jazz, Reggae, Sufi. Favorite Singers - Diljit Dosanjh and Amrinder Gill. Favorite Lyricist - Satinder Sartaj. Movies: 7 Years in Tibet A Walk to Remember Dead Poets Society Good Will Hunting Fight Club Forrest Gump Into The Wild Memento Seven Star Wars (Every single SW movie) The Departed The Green Mile The Imitation Game The Pursuit of Happyness The Shawshank Redemption Favorite TV Shows: Prison Break Locked Up Abroad Scam 1992 Malcolm in the Middle F.R.I.E.N.D.S. The Big Bang Theory Narcos The Ted Bundy Tapes Black Mirror Books: Art of War The Book of Mirdad The Palace of Illusions The Forty Rules of Love I also like to read random stuff on Quora and Reddit.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Since this question is on CS, I would say that I have hosted many injured "birds" at my place and have fed them until they recovered and could fly again. I have stayed at two different Nudist resorts for the experience.
Teach, Learn, Share
I am a very good listener so I would like to listen to the stories of my hosts and surfers. Also, I would love to learn new languages during my trips. I will not call myself wise but I am the street smart kind of a guy, someone who can definitely differentiate between the right and the wrong for himself. I can share my good and bad experiences for people to learn from.
What I Can Share With Hosts
"knowledge shared is knowledge gained" and I would love to share my knowledge and experiences with them. I can always bring some souvenirs from the place I am coming from.
My Interests
🎒Backpacking trips ⛰Mountains ☕️Cardamom tea 🎶Jazz and Reggae music
