Serbia is among the most rural countries in Europe. For young people in Serbia it is increasingly difficult to live in the countryside, and agriculture remains to the pensioners.

One of the most famous village festivals held in the Balkans is the Vevcani Carnival which is held in city Vevcani in southern Macedonia. It is believed that the custom is over 1,400 years old.

Donja Lokosnica, village in Southern Serbia is the Serbian 'capital of paprika', since almost all of the 1300 inhabitants are involved in growing paprika.

Life in the towns and cities of Vietnam is lived on the street: where tradition, religion, communist ideology, globalisation, poverty and new wealth are in constant flux.