All small villages have that particular spirit of comradeship that is so close, yet too similar to being family, and is a great feeling to share, because it shows you another side of man kind, one side that we usually do not see as citicens of mayor urban areas, but is so good to see it alive and well on small villages, what i intent to point at, is the sense of familiarity and care, all small villages have it, you can sense how the neighborns actually care for each other, and mayor citys sometimes lose that, in my city noone even knows the people of the same block they live in, and that is something awful, basically they do not care about the fellow man, and that is no way to do good.
Loved the photos, you can see the celebration of life on their faces, good group of good people :D
Honestly I feel, they are more happy because of less aspirations. Once you go to the cities, there is a competition which never ends. But people in rural are happy with what they have - they spend more time socially.
And they spend more time being Happy, instead of being envious of others and their "stuff". A content and happy society makes people more happy, simple yet so hard to see.