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Screen name:

Futaleufu

Age:

Gender:

Female

If you must know:

I'm taken

Travel status:

Traveling soon

Hometown:

Naryan-Mar, Russia

Currently in:

Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

Traveling Next:

Nepal and Bhutan- the Dragon Trek (20 April-13 May), Costa-Rica (20 May-04 June), Jordan (10-20 June)

Favorite places I've been:

Cape Town in South Africa, the Drakensberg in Lesotho, Vic Falls in Zimbabwe, Chobe NP in Botswana, the Last Resort in Nepal, Amdo Monastery in Tibet, Pacuare river in Costa-Rica, Island of Hvar in Croatia, Guca Trumpet Festival in Serbia, Austrian Alps, hiking in Scotland, marriage in Italy, watching whales in Greenland, polar bears in Spitzbergen and Aurora Borealis in Childhood.

Places I want to go to:

Bhutan, Sikkim, Futaleufu and Azul rivers, Torres del Paine (Chile), Peru, Tierra del Fuego (Argentina), Tasmania, Peninsula de Osa (Costa Rica). I'm ready to dash to any place on the Earth.

About me:

For the last 5 years i have been working as a guide for an adventure travel company based in Russia. I guide rafting and hiking tours in Altay region. Due to short russian summer i also take groups and individuals to Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, South Africa, Costa Rica and other countries. Probably I should start writing guide books, yeap, i'm starting. Right now.

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http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/futaleufu

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I'm fired up on:

I'm a cooking fairy, passionate reader, excellent rider and perfect girlfriend.

Tunes I rock out to:

U2, Jehro, Xavier Rudd, Asa, Ayo, Erikah Badu, John Butler Trio, Mark Knopfler, India.Arie, Sigur Ros, Walter Ferguson, Jimi Hendrix... Bossanova is my recent passion.

Travel style:

As a travel company's guide i use any excuse to leave my own country and set out to the next journey. I think that couchsurfing project is one of the greatest ideas ever. Planning trip is ruining it.

Quote:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

Sports I do:

capoeira, yoga, inlane skating

Favorite books:

I love everything that had ever been written by Julio Cortazar

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

uhm.. Polar bear or an alien would be fantastic

Languages spoken, other than English:

spanish, french, nepali

Why I travel:

I feed my feet when travelling, and still they're starving. One of the most fascinating things is to wake up your first day in an undiscovered place.

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

Balooning over ancient city of Bagan, Myanmar at 4:45 am