Currently exploring China 🇨🇳

Hello there! 👋🏻

We are Nav (M) and Shish (F) - 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 left home in May 2022 and have been travelling full-time since then - spending the last three years exploring beautiful lands and cultures, making new friends and learning so much on this journey!

The last one year, we Hitchhiked across Africa from Nairobi, Kenya to Cape Town, South Africa (covering 20,000 kms with stops along the way). And we learned so much about humanity through our journey (we have stories to share with you 🫶🏼)

Now we're back in East Asia after wild Africa. We're curious to see new cultures and new lands and learn more about them!

Oh, we're vegetarian 🌱 (don't eat meat, chicken, fish, etc.) - it’s hard to survive in some places, but we’ve managed fine in most countries.

We've also been documenting our journey over the last three years on our YouTube channel - just search for "Nav and Shish" 👬🏻

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! And ask us to tell you some wild stories when we meet 😅

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 a few years now - 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!)
Yoga: one of us has been doing this for a looong time, and can teach you some useful asanas or we can practice together

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, 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, Zimbabwe