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Meetup with Locals and Travelers, Find Accomodation in Singapore | Couchsurfing. Singapore. Nearby Kuala Lumpur Jakarta Ho Chi Minh Bangkok. There truly is no other place in the world quite like Singapore. In fact, it is the only island city-state in the world.
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在Singapore 结识当地人和旅客、查找住宿 | Couchsurfing. Singapore. 附近 Kuala Lumpur Jakarta Ho Chi Minh Bangkok. photo by cattan2011 / Attribution License. There truly is no other place in the world quite like Singapore. In fact, it is the only island city-state in the world.
- Nikki: Gaining Friends, Connections, and A Job from Couchsurfing
- Jia Ling: Travelling For The People, Not The Place
- Shian Bang: How Opening Doors to Couchsurfers Opened Opportunities Too
- Tips on Being A Successful Couchsurfer, from Actual Couchsurfers
Making friends around the world
A decade ago, Nikki created her couchsurfing account with little expectations. Today, she has loads of international friends from all around the world — friends she wouldn’t have met if it weren’t for couchsurfing. “I might not have met them in their home country, they might not have met me in my home country.” Indeed, it’s these international friendships Nikki made out of couchsurfing that really changed her perspective on life. For one, it led to rather interesting travel experiences. While...
Community events and the 200 pax Christmas BBQ
Nikki isn’t just a couchsurfer with many friends. Local couchsurfers might recognise her as one of the admins for the Couchsurfing Singapore Facebookgroup, sharing helpful tips, answering questions, and organising events. Since joining the community, she’s organised/helped at over 20 Couchsurfing events ranging from dinners to volunteering events in both Singapore and Auckland. Organising a BBQ at East Coast Park sounds simple enough, but when it’s for an international community this big, it...
How helping a friend from couchsurfing landed her a job
Perhaps the biggest life changer for Nikki was scoring a job from a good friend she met through Couchsurfing. But the kicker was that she didn’t actively hunt for it. In fact, it was, in her words, “pretty random”. After celebrating New Year’s Eve with some surfers in Kuala Lumpur at one guy’s condo, Nikki kept in touch with them. The same guy would email them a press release he wrote for his new start-up company a few months later. He asked them for help with proofreading, since they were na...
“Couchsurfing isn’t that scary.”
An avid couchsurfer since 2013, Jia Ling’s first couchsurfing experience was with friends during her university exchange in Europe. Hosted by a guy in Belgium, the six of them had fun exploring the city, and having dinner and drinks. It made her realise that couchsurfing wasn’t that scary, especially with a group of people. Since then, couchsurfing has been the her go-to when travelling, and she hasn’t looked back. “To me, it’s all about opening your heart and your mind. Go stay with someone...
“I actually went there for the host, instead of the place itself.”
For most of us, having a travel experience so impactful that it completely changes our perspective of travel doesn’t always happen. But for Jia Ling, couchsurfing did just that — it completely changed the way she thought travelling was supposed to be. “Now, when I think about travelling, it’s no longer about going to a place and checking things off a list. For me, travelling is always about meeting people now.” Compared to staying in hotels and hostels where you meet people on a more “hi-and-...
Surfing in “dangerous” places like Turkey and India
Turkey and India may not have the reputation of being the safest countries in the world, but that hasn’t stopped Jia Ling from couchsurfing there. For her graduation trip, Jia Ling travelled alone to Turkey for two months as her friend pulled out at the last minute. “Right after my exams, I flew there and found my first host online before I got there. Eventually, I got recommended to other hosts in the country, and they then introduced me to different places they thought I should go. That’s h...
The road to becoming a host
While most people start out by couchsurfing with hosts overseas, Bang did the opposite — he started hosting first. Inspired by Anthony Bourdain’s personal touch in his travel shows, Bang felt that they were genuine. Couchsurfing offered similar experiences, and he wanted to have them too. He had to first convince his family members who were naturally resistant. To ease their discomfort, Bang assured that he would always be at home at the same time as his surfers. Eventually, his family agreed...
Meeting the most colourful of people from all over the world
An Armenian art dealer. A Japanese traveller with a suitcase full of luggage stickers. A chef who has been travelling for eight years. Musicians who hitchhike all over Asia. A French and Argentinian couple on a year-long adventure with their 11-month-old girl. These are just some of the interesting surfers Bang tells us he has hosted — people he wouldn’t have met if it weren’t for couchsurfing. Opening his doors to travellers gave him the opportunity to meet and connect with so many people fr...
Capturing moments and life lessons from hosting
Besides hosting, Bang also “uses” his surfers for another purpose — human subjects for his photography project. Since picking up photography in the army, Bang worked as a photo assistant in a studio, then as a travel photographer in Thailand. After his stint ended, he wanted his own studio space to hone his craft. The bedroom originally meant for surfers then transformed into an ad-hoc photography studio. “I wanted to work on human subjects after my stint in landscape photography. Then it hit...
Want to try couchsurfing? Nikki, Jia Ling and Bang share their best tips on getting started, and how to be a good surfer.
Couchsurfing (Singapore) | Facebook. Private group. ·. 10.9K members. Join group. About this group. This is the Couchsurfing Singapore group on Facebook. (Find us on CS at http://bit.ly/1FQj8I9) Feel free to post your queries, gatherings, meet-ups and anything travel/CS related.
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Feb 15, 2011 · Couchsurfing for the first time: Couchsurfing in Singapore - Travel the world. strive4impact February 15, 2011 Singapore, Travel 11 Comments. We just completed our first Couchsurfing experience during a 4 day stay in Singapore. What is Couchsurfing? I’m glad you asked. You can go to www.CouchSurfing.com to see.
