Currently exploring South Africa 🇿🇦 on our Nairobi to Cape Town / Africa expedition

Hello there! We are Shishira (F) and Navneeth (M) - you can call us Shish & Nav 😃 - and we're a married couple from Bangalore, a city in southern India! We love travel (which is how we came here on CS 😅) and curious about life in all countries.

We are currently on a quest to travel across Africa over the next few months! We started in Nairobi, Kenya in March 2024 and have made our way down south mostly by hitchhiking (and some public transport) overland. Through this journey, the biggest life lesson we've learnt is about kindness and humanity! And that's inspired us to keep going further over this journey.

We originally left home in May 2022 and have been on the road since - before coming to Africa, we explored Asia. Our goal is to visit as many countries, to experience the beauty of life. 👫🏻

To remember this once-in-a-lifetime journey, we began documenting our time on the road on: https://YouTube.com/thebackpacksters and somewhere along, people began watching along on this journey and now we get to share it with an audience there too - particularly how kindness of strangers has played a big role in our ability to travel out of our comfort zone!

Oh, we're vegetarian 🌱 (don't eat meat, chicken, fish, etc)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Looking to meet locals who can teach about the way of life, local sights, history and everyday life in their city! If you invite us to stay with you, we're very well behaved surfers.

Interests

• technology
• cars
• investing
• geography
• geopolitics
• history
• international relations
• hitchhiking
• budget travel
• travel
• food
• film
• finance

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Leaving home to travel full-time!

Teach, Learn, Share

Investing: worked in investment banking - can teach you how to grow your personal wealth
Budget travel: can help you find cheap flights and share travel tips and tricks, and true money saving tactics for the countries we've had the chance to explore
Blogging and filmmaking: done it for six years - can share all learnings from this 🤓

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories: We have many incredible (and dangerous) stories to share from our travels around the world! Especially about human kindness
Food: we can prepare south Indian dishes if you have a kitchen (and also teach you the recipes!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Burundi, Cambodia, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Namibia, Philippines, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Réunion, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Zambia