Australia is a huge Country where nature is definitely the main character. I don't know about you, but in my imagination, Australia means take the car and drive for days along endless fields of a beautiful nothing. Maybe camping somewhere under an endless sky completely covered with stars.. Leave the big cities when you visit other places.

This religious festival (Taoism) starts in the morning and continues until night. The procession moves from temple to temple and there are many cars and vans like this, where small bands, composed mostly by women and children, rhythmically playing music for the ritual.

Here it's shown an important gesture of this ceremony. The shirtless man you see is the priest of the temple, and every group or person who came, had to obtain his blessing and respect by a bow. This was an important step of the ceremony that has been repeated throughout the entire duration of the procession.

Another key part of the ceremony: several groups of men, after carrying on their shoulders these types of small shrines, once there in front of the temple, incited by the screams of the audience and accompanied by the constant music (and blessed by the customary bow of the "priest"), they performed one at a time in this exhausting ritual.

Walking through the mystical silence of the ancient forest in Yakushima island. This is one of the most beautiful forest I've ever seen.. an enchanted atmosphere and beautiful glimpses. It's also famous for having inspired films like "Princess Mononoke".

At the old neighborhoods of Tokyo... a door half open, an old man that work despite poor lighting condition.

A view of the colorful streets of Osaka downtown.

Asakusa is one of the traditional neighborhoods of Tokyo. One of the few places of this city where you can see the style of the ancient Japan...(that i like most).

Two children intent to work with wood, in a small village of huts on the mountains in the middle of the jungle .. a return to the past ... a lifestyle alien to the modern civilization.

Another shot from the jungle... a life away from civilization and comfort of modern technology. They don't look so desperate... It's surely not easy, but the atmosphere of the village is definitely more relaxed and calm of what you might find in any city.