Flooding season in An Giang province

Photographer Huynh Phuc Hau grew up in Chau Doc city, An Giang province. He has taken many photos of the Mekong Delta province in the flooding seasons. The following photo collection was conducted in many years, introducing the public to the vast fields in Chau Doc city and Tinh Bien district in An Giang province.

Flood season is a part of life in the Mekong Delta. Located along the upper branches of the Mekong River in Vietnam, An Giang is the first province in the region to welcome the annual flooding season, seen as a gift from heaven, bringing tonnes of fish into the paddy fields along with alluvial deposits to fertilize the next crop. (Photo: vnexpress.net)

A boy goes fishing at sunset in Vinh Te commune, Chau Doc town. (Photo: vnexpress.net)

Cows strolling along the Tha La canal in Chau Doc town (Photo: vnexpress.net)

A couple rows their boat to pick up white water lilies in Vinh Te commune, Chau Doc town near the Cambodian border. The white water lilies are also called 'ghost flowers' because they only bloom at night. Water lillies are a present that Mother Nature has given to poor Khmer locals in An Giang. They grow in old reservoirs, with stems of around 2 – 5 metres and white and purple flowers. (Photo: vnexpress.net)

Images of farmers raising a fishing net at dusk in the flooded fields in Tha La create unique landscape photos. The colour of the sky changes day by day, whether at dawn or dusk and never repeats. (Photo: vnexpress.net)

A gloriously colored afternoon on Tra Su reservoir in Tinh Bien district as a boy prepares to lead his herd of buffaloes home. (Photo: vnexpress.net)

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