At times, we may desire to step back from the hustle of metropolitan life and embrace our instinctual calling: to return simpler times where people were more connected, in smaller towns and villages, and surrounded by natural beauty.
Such places still exist, though, like pockets of paradise scattered across the globe. From cultures of the far East to the West, hidden in deep mountains or remote valleys, such places hark back to our ancestral heritage, all but untouched by modern times.