Hi 🤗

It's Bahar and Ömer.
We are a couple of amateur musicians and travelers. We met in the backpacking community of our university. Then we spent all our summers together traveling on a very low budget, hitchhiking and camping most of the time.
These experiences have been the most meaningful moments of our lives. After spending most of the year in a busy-and-grey-city Ankara and studying at one of Turkey's most challenging universities, we found freedom and happiness on the road.
Eventually, we decided to leave behind the life that was presented to us as and we've chosen to travel full-time.
Nothing is certain about our future but we feel this is the only way, and we’re ready to embrace the risk.
Our journey began two months ago. We've been to South Korea and Japan. Now we are visiting Vietnam.

Peace!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meeting new people has always broadened our horizons and helped us reach the mindset that allowed us to embark on this journey. Couchsurfing is the perfect place to meet people who inspire and teach you new ways of seeing the world.

Interests

• tenting
• hiking/walking
• backpacking and hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

• Genres:
Music: Folk, Punk, Anatolian/psychedelic/progressive/blues rock

• Music artists: King Crimson, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, The Doors, Barış Manço, Kourosh Yaghmaei, Neşet Ertaş, Talking Heads, Deep Purple

• Movies: 2001:A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Dreams (Akira Kurosawa), Dune (I-II), My Neighbor Totoro, The Boy And The Heron, Blow Up

•Books: Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse), Demons (Dostoevsky), Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach), The Complete Essays (Montaigne)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking from the capital of Turkey (Ankara) to the capital of Georgia (Tbilisi) — and all the way back. A total of 2,600 km!

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can share our travel experiences.
We can share about Turkish culture.
We can introduce you traditional Turkish instruments and Turkish music. Ömer plays a stringed instrument called "Cura Baglama", while Bahar plays a percussion instrument, "Bendir".

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Japan, Serbia, South Korea, Turkey, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey