2023-06-20 11:03:00
He lived his early childhood in Mendoza, but from the age of 7 to 12 his family moved to San Luis. In 2013 she entered the National University of Whose where he studied the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and it was received in due time and form in 2017, having carried out two exchanges in Burgundy (France) and in Scotland.
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Augustine told diary ONE that when he was first in Brazil travel anxiety awoke; being in a different country, with another culture, with different climate, tropical rain, temperature changes, people who dress differently, unfamiliar foods.
And he wondered: if a neighboring country is so different, what would the other side of the world hold for him?
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Agustín is on a safari through Thailand.
Photo: Agustin Saez
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His first backpacking trip to Europe
“I always had family, acquaintances who instructed me every time they returned from vacation and I lived dreaming of the opportunity to be where they showed me in those photos, romanticizing it a bit and it just happened that the opportunity to do an exchange came up, to train abroad when I was about to finish my degree in Argentina”he explained.
He first trip to Europe was in 2015, when he made his first trade. He had an “Argentine student” budget and decided to embark on a backpacking dream, living on ten dollars a day.
So it came to know 35 countries. From France it made a route to Moscow (Russia) and then to Istanbul (Turkey). “I realized that you could travel on a low budget without the need to put aside studies or work and have a pleasant life.”
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Agustín traveled through 35 countries living for 10 dollars a day.
Photo: Agustin Saez
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“My idea is to convey to Argentines and Spanish-speaking people that traveling is possible what can be done with low budgetthat it is not necessary to have an extensive patrimony to know the world, that it can be done even workingthere is no secret”, said the young man, who shares his experiences in the Instagram @agustintravel.
Agustín recounted that trips to different countries arose spontaneously, he began to discover new places and cultures, gave him curiosity to play with the idea of staying one more day, of discovering what was behind the next frontier.
At the beginning -according to the young man- a schedule was made with the number of days in each city, the museums and monuments that he was going to visit, but now you just choose the date of round trip and that the place surprises you.
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The 28-year-old only chooses the return date of his trips and that the place surprises him.
Photo: Agustin Saez
Another change in his way of traveling is luggage, which is increasingly reduced, currently carries a “school bag” with a set of t-shirts, socks, two pants and little else. “I have the phrase that anything else that is not vitally important like a phone, a passport and a change of clothes, you can go shopping.”
The place more magical what he met is Maldiveswhere he was two months ago and is “one of the countries most beautiful in nature of the world. In my life I thought that I would be able to be in such a quiet place, without so much tourism, I thought it was a luxurious place and in the end it was a super beautiful country, normal”Augustine added.
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Agustín in the Maldives, swimming with sharks. “It is one of the most beautiful countries in the world in terms of nature”
Photo: Agustin Saez
The worst experience: a kidnapping attempt
When Augustine was in Haiti made one of the many outings for Channel 7. The next day, suffered a kidnapping attempt.
“It seems that The word spread, I was about to go out on the streetI was in a hotel in the middle of a humble city and I went to look for the taxi that it was a scooter. I I was holding on to the man on the scooter and when we passed through the door of the hotelI was waiting a guy with a machete.”
The problem is that the young man went to Haiti in December 2021, in the midst of a civil war, in the moment in wich they assassinated the president Jovenel Moise. Practically there was no state Haitians asked for international help due to the shortage of supplies, but Agustín did not know all the conflict before traveling to the Caribbean island.
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Augustine with a view of the city in Haiti in December 2021 when there was a civil war.
Photo: Agustin Saez
Leaving Haiti was an adventure. At first he thought about renting a car, but they advised him not to because no company was going to rent him a car so that it would be dismantled a few kilometers away.
There were no planes airports were taken and there were only a few companies left local buses used by Haitians traveling to the Dominican Republic to work.
“I was the only tourist on the bus and they told me that it was one of the last buses that left this year.’It’s going one way, we don’t know if it’s coming back, because the bus that came last week got 15 thugs on top and looted everything’, They told me. I had already bought the ticket, I took a risk, I was a little used to traveling in Europe, a little more colourful, more friendly and the reality of the outside world grabbed me a bitthe crude trips”, recounted Agustín.
The young man had already boarded the bus to leave Haiti, when the vehicle turned around noisily halfway through because there was a protest ahead and if they followed the path, they did not pass. He had to stay an extra night and the next day, finally, the bus left.
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Augustine at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Photo: Agustin Saez
How you came to work at Louis Vuitton
Agustín said that while he was studying at the university he had entrepreneurship projects.
in 2016 was a member of contest winning team regional that was made in Mendoza called UNCuyo Innovates and in 2017 he was part of the finalist team of Emprende U. Both awards gave international visibility and that allowed him to work in the Alcatel group -in the Nexans company- in France.
He trained in human resource management, consulting, and later in software. He has worked with global luxury brands such as the Hermes France group and for the Richmond group in Switzerland, which is the company of some perfumes such as Mont Blanc.
He currently works for Louis Vuittonfrom the group of Christian Dior. His current job is advise the company on strategic issues in functional and technical aspects, at the IT and human resources levelso they can better manage their employee scheduling systems.
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Augustine in Italy. He currently works for the Christian Dior group and lives in France.
Photo: Agustin Saez
The Argentines, the kings of charisma and the chamuyo
Agustín recounted every time he returns to the province he sees it differently, with pronounced changes.
“Now I was, in Jujuy, in Salta, in the rest of Argentina, I also like to know the country and I see that Mendoza is progressing quite well in terms of infrastructure, investment, and public services. In Mendoza City, Compared with the north of Argentina, with the rest of South America, we are tremendously far away in terms of progress, development at the level of basic services, education,” he said.
The young man said that one of the things he likes most about Argentina is the way of being from the people.
“Argentines have a way of being that cannot be found, the chamuyo and the charisma, how to get in touch with a person to like someone. It happens to me that I like Mendoza and Argentines in general much better and I can trustAugustine added.
He stressed that the culture is outgoing and abroad any Argentine sees him as an open person, who work and are in permanent growthlooking to improve.
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Augustine in Petra (Jordan).
Photo: Agustin Saez
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