CURRENT MISSION

Discovering our small planet, its landscapes and its people.

ABOUT ME

What can i say! I'm a dreamer, still seeing the same dreams since I was a kid.

PHILOSOPHY

Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada más.
Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Meeting and befriending people of other cultures is the only way to bridge the gap between nations, thus making this world a better place to live.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted:
1- Regis and Virginie from Derval-France.
2- Guther and Renata Faggion from Sao Paolo-Brazil.
3- Ala' suleiman and Mohammad al Moghrabi from Jordan.
4- Wajdi Bsoul from Kuwait.
5- Alejandro Castillejos from Georgia-USA.
6- Craig Heimburger from Oregon-USA.
7- Mike Moss from California-USA.
8- Jamal Jawhar from Aleppo-Syria.
9- Haian Dukhan from Palmyra-Syria.

I was hosted by:
1- Jorge Jerez in Santiago de Chile.
2- Jose Ruiz in Puerto Montt, Chile.
3- Muhammad Barri in Aleppo-Syria.
4- Jamal Jawhar and Alexis Keeley in Aleppo-Syria.
5- Koray Cengiz in Antakia-Turkey.
6- Alaa Suleiman in Amman-Jordan.

Also I have participated in many CS meetings and trips in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, especially the great Camping trip in Palmyra in Oct 2008 and the desert camp in Jordan in May 2009.

Interests

"Mountains are fountains, not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. Therefore we are all, in some sense, mountaineers, and going to the mountains is going home". (John Muir).
Well, I was a trekker till may 2008 when I started mountaineering in the Andes. Follows a list of mountains I've been to till now :
1- Uhuru peak, Kilimanjaro (5894 m), Tanzania.
2- Nevado Pisco (5752 m), and the "around Alpamayo" trek in the northern part of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru.
3- Damavand volcano (5671m), Alborz range, Iran.
4- Everest region circuit and high passes : Chhukung Ri (5560m), Kongma La (5535m), Renjo La (5410m) and Cho La (5370m), Nepal.
5- Cerro del Plomo (5431m) near Santiago, the W trek in Patagonia and arround Volcan Osorno, Chile.
6- Tilicho lake (5032 m) and eastern Annapurna circuit,Nepal.
7- Tsergo Ri (4984m), Laurebina pass (4610m)and Lantang, Gosaikund and Helambu circuit, Nepal.
8- GR 20 trek (2225m), Corsica, France.
9- Mount Kinabalu (4095 m),Sabah & Cameroun highlands, Malaysia.
10- Mount Cameroon (4095m)& mount Oku (3011m), Cameroon.
11- Mount Kenya, Shipton hut (4200m), Kenya.
12- Mount Shkharra glacier, Chelati glacier (2300m) Svaneti & Tusheti (2450m), Caucasus-Georgia.
13- Pic Boby (2658m), Andringitra mountains & Isalo range & Ankaratra mountains, Madagascar.
14- Tulu Hangafu (3546m),Bale mountains & Fentale volcano (2000m), Ethiopia.
15- Pico Turquino(1974m), Sierra Maestra, Cuba.
16- Le Pouce (812m), Mauritius island.
17- Mount Olympus (1952m), Cyprus.
18- Qornet el Sawda (3087m) and almost all mountains in Lebanon.
More to come..........

Beside climbing and trekking, I adore wild camping, Photography, reading books and watching the best TV channel : the off channel.

• books
• photography
• reading
• tv
• camping
• mountaineering
• rock climbing
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music : Arabic, I am a big fan of Ziyad Rahabani and Fayrouz.
English, Barcley James Harvest, The Moody Blues, Super Tramp...
Movies : Anything for Meryll streep, Kevin Sapcy.
Books : Vedor Dostoievski,Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ismail Kadari, Franz Kafka...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The view of a herd of sheeps licking ice from a remaining patch of snow during the summer in the mountains of North Lebanon.

Teach, Learn, Share

No special skills, only my faith in the ability of humankind in making things better, hope I can contaminate the others with this virus.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Cameroon, Chile, China, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Lebanon

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