Solo traveler and travel blogger. Juggles between a full-time job and travel blogging with passion and love for both in equal measure.

I am the one who is more an observant than a talker in the room. I am a person of few words but, quite a few interesting stories.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet new people and see the place with their perspective. To challenge my own perspectives about the world and how it functions.

To know about local culture, heritage, history and understand expectations of local residents from people visiting their lands.

Best way to know about a new place is through the residents themselves. Love to see special and not much-known places through their own personal experiences.

Interests

• culture
• books
• architecture
• photography
• music
• history
• mountains
• travel
• food
• adventure
• travel writing
• human behavior
• bagpacking
• local experiences
• immersive travel

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: classical, folk and fusion

Books: The Fountain Head, The Bell Jar, Into Thin air, Into The Wild

Movies: Into the wild, Touching the void, Eat Pray Love, Gravity

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have traveled solo in Kashmir in India amidst curfew and stone-pelting, lived with locals, trekked to unnamed peak in Gurez valley in farthest north of Kashmir, hitchhiked throughout Gurez Valley
Dined with strangers in a jungle in Manipur in India when the tires of our vehicle went flat
Bunked at a stranger's place when I was lost while traveling in rural Maharashtra in India and they, now, have become my second home.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
Photography
Cooking (Indian Cuisine)
Basic trekking guidelines

Learn:
Would love to learn to play guitar
Social media marketing strategies

Share:
Stories from the road

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories and more stories. The good. The bad. The ugly. Stories of all kinds. Of me, Of people I met on the road and in the mountains.

Countries I’ve Visited

Nepal, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

India