The profile picture location is not in Europe, guess where is it? Made in Jakarta | SEO GEO Digital Marketing **(中文, Bahasa Indonesia, English) | Hidden History, Dark Side and Culture Enthusiast It is fun to use Couchsurfing as way to understand people from another side. Not as dating app. So let’s keep it fun! I can show you a lot of things that even locals don't know or realize and you can teach me about what you know but the locals from your country don't know 😁 When you understand the context or connection between historical places, it makes you appreciate the travel more and really satisfied with how the world works. Interestingly, I got these two books recommendation from CS here which become my main motivation to dive how the world works: - “The Changing World Order” by Ray Dalio, a renowned investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates, (largest hedge fund in the world) explores the cycles of rise and fall that empires and economies undergo throughout history. Dalio uses his research on history, economics, and finance to explain why nations rise to power, how they decline, and what lessons we can learn from these patterns. - "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", Yuval Noah Harari explains how humans evolved from small tribes into great civilizations through shared beliefs and cooperation. After the Agricultural Revolution, farming enabled permanent settlements like Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China. These societies built cities, writing systems, and hierarchies founded on imagined orders—religion, kingship, and law. Harari shows that these collective myths allowed millions of strangers to work together, forming the foundation of human civilization and the empires that followed. It is interesting how we can understand how the world works in the future from learning the past by traveling around. ---------------------------