During my stay in northern Thailand I rented a scooter and drove in company with an Australian girl met a few days earlier, through the villages in the mountains around Mae Hong Son. We were looking for the Burma's refugee villages to witness the different situations of life in the villages. This is the "Ban Nai Son Kayan Longneck Village", a small and remote village of huts almost inaccessible because of the dire condition of the road that leads here.

I was hosted in a small village near the city of Comilla. Here the visitors are very rare, especially in this time of year. Therefore my presence did not pass unnoticed. Wherever I walked the locals greeted me enthusiastically inviting me to drink or eat something together.. or perhaps have a chat. The elderly and those who could speak a bit of English tried excited to have a conversation with this man came from far away (me).

A small village nearby Mae Hong Son in Thailand. If you ride the motorbike outside the city you can find a few of these small villages formed by a dozen of huts. Here nobody can speak english and they normally work on the harvest, and the life is very simple.

Old Manali is a small mountain village nearby the Himalaya in India. In this peaceful town, the life pass by slow and quietly. This square was close to my guesthouse and a lot of people was used to gather here daily. The old women were chatting or weaving, the men were caring about the animals and the kids playing volleyball or other games all together.

A suburb of Hong Kong just off the gleaming main street. A boy was playing basketball alone in a playground among the tall buildings of the neighborhood. It had passed through my mind to challenge him in a one on one, but seeing him score twenty consecutive shots, I gave up to avoid what was an easy and resounding defeat.

The caotic streets of Hanoi. The noise of the vietnamese streets is always deafening and you gotta get used to it.

Inside the metro in Tokyo.. During the rush hours, everyone is heading to the office, for another wearing day of work.

After half an hour of waiting, the train load of people, both inside and outside, is allocated to the next village.. Latecomers try to climb on the train in some way.