Hey guys thanks for tuning in. Today I
wanted to show you another resource
that's come in handy for me as a solo
traveler after I spent three months
living on Koh Samui and Koh Phangan
and then travel to Bali I had nine more
months ahead of me so I decided to start
looking at branching out and meeting new
people I found this awesome service they
also have a mobile app for your phone
it's called couchsurfing.com or the
couchsurfing app on your phone you can
download it obviously on iOS or Android
anyways within a couple days of setting
up my profile I have received
invitations to be hosted by several
people in the next few destinations that
I have listed so it lets you list your
next ten visits so I put Vietnam Danang
Hanoi haven't heard anything from Lao I
even went as far as Germany and France
but that's much further out so I got
quite a few responses already for
Vietnam which I'm going to be heading
that way in about a week or so so here's
the here's the actual user interface
here I'm logged in to 90% complete one
thing is that you only get ten free
invitations after that you have to pay
$50 to get verified and finish the
verification process so that you can
have so you don't have those limitations
which I'll definitely do so I'm verified
for other people that are going to be
hosting me but I have plans in Ho Chi
Minh I'm probably going to stay at a
hosts tour English exchange program for
a couple days where I'm going to do four
hours of English teaching with a group
of Vietnamese and they're then going to
show me around the city I also met a
girl who's going to take me to dalat
which have some incredible scenery and
she says that it's the best place in
South Vietnam anyway so things are
working out really well thanks to the
couchsurfing service I highly recommend
it for any solo traveler other than that
there's tinder
and meetup calm which I have other
videos that I will set up for those as
well but yeah here check it out you can
set yourself up as you can see here I've
confirmed to stay with the Danang free
tour and probably up here maybe with neo
at the Ho Chi Minh and you can see all
these other ones that are pending or
that are offering this is the one that
I'm going to do the English exchange a
Chen ton and there's other ones I mean I
can't stay with everybody but it's very
nice that there's so many generous
people that are offering to show you
around and basically just hang out maybe
learn some English and just experience
other travelers one thing you want to do
is obviously make sure that they have
reference is and that they're verified
maybe more than one picture you know if
they only have one picture then I
typically don't even bother speaking
with them yeah look I have people all
the way back in Amsterdam and Chiang Mai
so that's a couple of months ahead so
this is an excellent service I highly
recommend it you can search for the
cities that you're going to so let's
just do one for example maybe Mandalay
because I'm probably going to end up
over there as well in Myanmar Burma see
what comes up for that
you
my hotel Wi-Fi is usually really fast
I'm not sure why this is taking so long
sorry there we go
so couchsurfing explore cities that
you're going to be visiting you can
check out local hosts in that area and
contact them directly as well as see
other visitors that are going to be
visiting at the same time as you
possibly if you get the app you can
check out hangouts with other people
that are couchsurfing as well so this is
a great service here as well or a great
feature of this service you can click on
find a host and then you can narrow down
where you want to find a host you can
even specify if they're male or female
and you select the date that you're
going to be arriving and leaving
and how many travelers you're with and
that will help filter out whether
they're accepting guests or not and then
you can contact them it looks like most
of these in Myanmar are just saying
maybe so you can set yourself up with a
public profile you can add a bunch of
pictures like I did and basically just
describe yourself while you're
couchsurfing while you're traveling give
references and get references for people
as you go and you meet people and you
make friends and you leave reviews for
hosts and other travelers so this is it
I highly recommend you try out the couch
surfing out if you're traveling anywhere
I'll probably keep this when I get back
home in nine months to the United States
so if anybody that I meet along the way
is coming to America and wants to visit
the west coast or you know if I'm just
hanging out and you like hosting
somebody that's passing through it'll
allow you to meet some really cool
people and it's a really good app so
it's messaging verification process KO
file there's it's a great service so I
highly recommend using this as a solo
traveler it's a great way to meet people
so here's one of my friends she's going
to take me to deadlock it's going to be
an incredible trip over the next weekend
I believe and and that's it I've even
got people over and staying some
I didn't even label that I'm going
offering me to come and stay so that's
it guys that's the couchsurfing service
you can also get it on your phone like I
said so you have any questions go ahead
and leave a comment and add me on
couchsurfing if you want and please like
and subscribe to my channel if you see
this video I'll try and make more videos
on other useful tips for solo travelers
like myself because I'm three months
into this and now that I'm exploring
countries I've never visited before I
don't have as many resources or
knowledge of the area so it's becoming
very helpful to make friends and meet
people and experience their culture and
and have them show you around and it's
awesome so I highly recommend this
thanks for watching guys leave any
comments if you have any questions thank
you
