🌍 Dreamer, Seeker & Minimalist. Currently, a full-time world traveler.

Until I was 23yo, I didn’t think that traveling abroad was for me, so I didn’t study much about the world and only spoke Portuguese, until I decided to do an academic exchange (Industrial Engineering) in Porto, Portugal, in 2015. That experience changed my life…

Since then, I traveled to 60 countries, learned other 3 languages, and I’m more and more interested about our amazing world.

I have the dream to become a global citizen: someone that understands better other cultures and can be a more empathetic and a wiser person. The way I’ve been developing myself is both traveling and working in different countries since I left Brazil in Jan/2022. I’m planning to travel for a total of 7 years as a nomad, before the next stage of my life: settling down, getting the Australian citizenship, and learning French, German and Norwegian languages. I would like to spend at least 2 years in each continent.

I’m not a wealthy person and have been traveling in cheap ways or working in the hospitality field since I left Brazil. My last works were as a tour guide in Norway and in the Russian settlements in Svalbard.

I’m grateful for the local and genuine connections that I had the chance to have, while learning about their country’s history, culture, nature and people.

I’m originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I lived for a total of 28 years, and also enjoyed the beauties of 14 of the 26 Brazilian States.

In this life I had the opportunity to live in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis), Portugal (Porto), Peru (Lima), Italy (Rome, Padova and Sicily), South Africa (Cape Town), in a castle in France (Normandy), on a ship in Germany (Switzerland-Trier), Norway (Tromsø and Svalbard) and in Russian settlements in the Arctic (Barentsburg/Pyramiden).

🌍 Last destinations: 6 months in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal, 2 weeks in Jordan, 4 months Norway, 1 month in the UAE, 3.5 months in Svalbard, 1 month in the Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan), 5 weeks in China/HK/Macau, 6 weeks in Taiwan, 3 weeks in the Philippines, 3 months in the Middle East and 2 months in Central Asia.

I wish both to you and to myself good vibrations, Love, Peace and Freedom. May our dreams come true! ✨🤍🕊️

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I’m lucky to meet amazing people, and I realized that some of my close friends came from this community in the last years.

Interests

• animals
• photography
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• archeology
• history
• languages
• beaches
• nature
• freedom
• cultures
• stargazing
• plants
• buddhism
• waterfalls
• learning new things
• forest
• antropology
• hot springs
• citizenship
• arctic

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
- Trilogy of Matrix (1999 and 2003)
- Into the Wild (2007)
- Arrival (2016)
- Captain Fantastic (2016)
- The Shack (2017)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Traveled using Couchsurfing or other exchange experiences in more than 40 countries
- Completed my first Around the World
- Volunteered in countries in 4 continents
- Visited half of the provinces of Peru along 3 months
- Attended the second and the first biggest Carnivals: Cajamarca (Peru) and Rio de Janeiro
- Spent a Christmas with a Swedish family and visited them again 10 years later
- Participated in the wine harvest in Porto (Portugal) and tasted a 90-years-old wine
- Walked 500-750km/month while traveling
- Rode a buffalo in a race
- Swam in rivers with piranhas, aligators, anacondas, rays, kandirus (parasite fishes) and botos (river dolphins) and camped in the Amazon Rainforest some times
- Swam naked in almost 0°C waters in rivers, lakes and seas in different countries
- Dove in the 3 best diving spots of Brazil (Bonito, Fernando de Noronha and Arraial do Cabo) and in the Red Sea (Egypt and Jordan)
- Watched the birth of some animals such as turtles, calf, chicks and guinea pig
- Experienced both the Polar Nights and Polar Days while living in the Arctic for 8 months, enjoying its amazing landscapes, lights and wildlife
- Saw whales and orcas everyday for 3 months
- Kept friendships for many years
- Had immersions in different religions
- Had a nomadic life for 3 years

Teach, Learn, Share

For me, a day without learning and/or teaching, is a lost day.

I love to have genuine experiences, to listen the stories of the people, ​​and to understand how people think in different cultures.

I hope I can share some of my knowledge, experiences traveling the world and my world vision with you!

Some of my current favorite topics are Travels, Citizenships and Geopolitics.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Macao, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Oman, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Svalbard and Jan Mayen