Picture of aerial view of women in bright-colored tunics collecting floating in water flowers.

This river in Vietnam transforms into a living watercolor

During flood season, flowering water lilies paint the mighty Mekong white and fuchsia.

Wearing conical hats and traditional áo bà ba tunics, local women gather the water lilies at the break of dawn, as generations before them have done.
Photograph by KHÁNH PHAN
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