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Kyoto Backstreets • Kyoto 2017

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Profiles • Tokyo 2017

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Oranjap • Japan 2017

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It Wasn't Me • Kyoto • Japan 2017

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Nightlights • Shinjuku • Tokyo 2017

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Wet dreams • Tsukiji • Tokyo 2017

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Japan Underground • Tokyo/Kyoto 2017

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Build&destroy •  Shibuya • Tokyo 2017

I’m back brothers and sisters. I’m going to share something about my last travel in Japan. Or better, my 10 days between Tokyo and Kyoto.

I had the opportunity to explore the streets, living nights and days trying to watch a world “familiar” to my eyes, but lived in a such a different way.

I never get tired to walk discovering different angles of a such complicated culture: the tension between the past and the future is confusing but also excting cause you can find the same elements in both of them: the love for details, the reasearch of perfection in the ephemeral things, the sense of honor  and respectability... A labyrinth of rules hard to understand, but is so funny to loose yourself inside them.

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Avenida de Maceo • Cuba 2016

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Venceremos! • Cuba 2016

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Love • Cuba 2016

I miss you, Cuba. Give me one more chance, I breathed you. It was not love at first sight, you hid something, and I'm reluctant to give you everything at once. You proud, me proud. Both latin. I came back home. I want to see you again. These days I hear talking so much about you, what will you do now? Change, or never change.

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Marco! It's been years since we last messaged here, I can't believe how time flies. Anyway, I just wanted to ask you how you've been? Hope all is well, my friend! Keep up the amazing work, miss you. Best, A.

Hermano, que pasa? Thank you so much for the message. I'm glad to heard about you. I'm ok, tired for my job and cause I'm always busy. But I'm planning an amazing trip to japan in xmas holiday with my novia so I'm totally excited. And listen... I'll meet in Tokyo a friend of mine that live in Italy but far from here, so it's been a long time that we haven't met. We've just realized we arein the same city in the same days! What about you, my dear friend? Trabajo? Familia? Hope the best for you and you family. Stay fresh!!! Un abrazo. Marco

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The art of not understanding • Sri Lanka 2016

One of the best thing of traveling is “to don’t understand”. New language, new alphabet, new food, new religion, new lifestyle, new weather. I love this feeling of daze and I always feel lost in the centuries that bring to our days pieces of history, domination, contamination, poetry, architecture, recipes that we call culture. And this complexity is so fascinating and, at the same time, hard to understand through and through.

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Natural Mistic • Hill Country • Sri Lanka 2016

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Third class Trainer • Sri Lanka 2016

A trip by train in Sri Lanka is the perfect way to touch the richness of nature and the variety of landscapes. Expecially the railway from the Hill Country to Kandy, built from the British to transport the tea from the plantations to the cities, offers a panoramic view between woods and fields. The train runs extremely slowly, the time is dilated. We had need more than 6 hours to cover a distance of 150 km, but it was one of the best experience of the journey, lived in the comfortable 3rd class.

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Spirituals • Anuradhapura • Sri Lanka

Like all the religions, the metaphor of “climbing” is common in the buddist simbology. Visiting religious sites in Sri Lanka I often had to climb hundreds of steps, barefoot, to reach peacefull and meditation sites at the top of hills or inside caves. All the temples are full of prayers and the silence and the white dresses of the rituals explain perfectly the mood.

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Saturday night fever • Colombo • Sri Lanka 2016

Hello Tumblr, happy to be back at my desk to meet you on my dashboard and to share with the community my exciting trip through the beautiful island of Sri Lanka.

I was so lucky to meet for the first time srilankan people at dusk, on the Colombo seafront and it was truly touching cause there was tons of people laughting, screaming, playing with kids. Children and their parents were inside the water with all the dress on, running barefoot with their kite, playing cricket, eating misterious street-food in front of the waves.

I felt myself completely abandoned in that moment: in this simple way of being happy.