I arrived in Can Tho, Vietnam’s gateway city to the Mekong Delta, after an all-night flight and a three-hour drive from Ho Chi Minh City. I was too tired to set out and explore the city … and it quickly became too hot and humid. So I did the lazy photographer method and just set the camera on time lapse on my hotel room’s balcony while I took a snooze.

There was a fair bit of activity on the Hau River, which is a distributary of the Mekong and passes through Can Tho, Vietnam’s fourth largest city.

I’m in Vietnam for a week to document a Crop Trust-supported project to increase the resilience of rice to our changing climate via breeding programs using the genetic diversity of wild relatives of rice.