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Turkish couchsurfer: It’s a social responsibility for me to host people visiting Albania

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By Jona Kuka Alaattin is an avid traveler and an active participant in the famous traveler’s website, couchsurfing.com. This website is great for those that want to explore countries of the world, while they meet and talk to local people. The upside of a website like couchsurfing is its safety and the variety of the people you can choose to meet on your travels. Alaattin, what is couchsurfing for you? Couchsurfing is mostly used by backpackers or in other words low budget travelers. These people aren’t looking for cheap solutions, but they prove, that money shouldn’t be a barrier when…

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