p.s I had to create new couchsurfing profile, don't be afraid

Hi there, my name is Lyu !
I’m an explorer — I love using this word because it best conveys what I feel. A curiosity for life, a desire to try something new with interest, to explore, to seek.

I love direct and caring communication. I love to make jokes, sometimes love to talk for hours, sometimes be silent — just be, following whatever I feel in the moment.
There’s no “plan”, I follow feelings, I follow the heart.
If I feel like staying, I stay. If I feel like leaving, I go. This is how I travel 9 years already..

I value honesty, openness and kindness in people.
I value people who are real, who don’t hide masks behind. If you’re open with me, I’ll meet you the same way.

I’m a cinematographer/photographer, I take photos and shoot videos, I’m searching for stories and enjoying sharing them with people.
I love cinematography. When I was a kid I thought that when I grew up I would become a director and will write books. Well, I haven't grown up yet and everything is still to come hahahhah, so I'm collecting all my experiences, which will someday become something different.

Well, now I’m on the way across Asia. My path started in Thailand in march, I was travelling for 7 months by hitchhiking, renting motorcycles, camping, hiking, learning from people.
I travel with a tent and often go on long hikes in the wild. And this is what gives me true inspiration, purity of life, pure freedom.
Home is not a place, it’s inside, home is the Earth.

I love observing the quiet awakenings in people — those moments when something inside shifts, and the world around becomes clearer, softer, and deeper.
We all teach each other something in one way or another, but sometimes, certain things change something within us forever.
I love witnessing human happiness. It often lives in the simplest things — yet not everyone knows how to recognize it.
A smile, a random act of kindness, a small gesture: helping an elderly person, supporting someone (sometimes just one hug can open the path to the light within), giving a child a toy, simply sharing what we have. Always remember — sharing is caring :)
These gestures are simple, yet they can become an important memory for someone — a moment when the world felt a little warmer.
It is these moments that fill us with living, human love, and that is priceless.
It is a manifestation of the natural inner light that exists in All of Us.
The only thing that matters is noticing it and allowing it to shine.
And how truly valuable it is to share what carries human love and warmth. Because what is inside us becomes our reality. We live, notice, and pay attention to what comes from within.
This is why my dream is to create documentary films that inspire and help people truly understand what it means to follow a path that comes from the heart.

Aho.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I’m here because it’s a center of immersion into the real life of people who live in a completely different worlds, with different cultures, mentality, different languages (I’m trying to learn languages when I come to new countries and, you know, sometimes I can definitely say those words "humm, there are no such words in my language ! We don’t speak that way and simply don’t express such a thought in that way" and it fascinates me !
Each person in this world is absolutely unique, like different universes with different rules of their existence. And how big is the part in us that is influenced by the particularities of our different cultures? And if you collect a lot of these values from different parts of the world, how versatile can we be?
So I’m here because I don't wanna be a tourist in this life :)

Sooo let's catch up on the road and make new beautiful memories together, that one day we will remember with a smile and warmth in our souls.

Interests

• culture
• writing
• books
• festivals
• vegetarian
• yoga
• meditation
• walking
• board games
• traveling
• billiards
• drawing
• music
• live music
• hiking
• backpacking
• basketball
• tennis
• badminton
• languages
• psychology
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• art
• ukulele
• cinema
• phylosophy
• people
• knowledge
• handpan
• jaw harp

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I have more then 50 playlists in Spotify hahahahh
I love soul, blues, country, r&b, funk, jazz, rock, indie, instrumental etc.. generally I’m more into 60-90s

Directors and writers are discussed only in person hehe

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living this life and not giving up

Teach, Learn, Share

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. And you will see that actually everything is possible.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia, Montenegro, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, China, Russian Federation, Thailand, Turkey