| On day 12, they will go to My Tho in the Mekong Delta to visit a military snake farm before boarding the private sampan for a river cruise. |
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| You can build your own raft out of bamboo, and punt along the Klemin river or cruise down the Pimpin rivers by sampan. |
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| In East Asia the sampan is the commonest boat type, although the hull form, rig, and fittings vary widely. |
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| Today's tour starts with the visit of Cai Be's colorful floating market on board a traditional sampan, the Cai Be Princess. |
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| In Japan, Hawaii, and Taiwan, a powered boat has been developed out of the traditional Japanese sampan, with a flat-bottomed midsection. |
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| In the land where water reigns master, we'll go for a ride in a traditional sampan fishing boat. |
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| My father was a sailor and we lived in a sampan, a house boat. |
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| Behind me I hear applause which gets fainter as our sampan moves noiselessly and seemingly effortlessly away from the landing-stage. |
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| The sampan is not designed for a clumsy Westerner loaded with photographic equipment: it lists to one side, fills with water and starts to sink, leaving me just enough time to grab hold of the plank with my arms. |
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| Dark, burly, bespectacled, in his white vestments, he would clamber on a sampan to embrace an old man, or crouch to watch children making fireworks. |
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| The sampan is sculled with a large sweep balanced on the transom stern. |
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| After a few moments of general perplexity the young girl has an idea: she summons a second sampan, which is made to glide to the spot just beneath my buttocks. |
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| At the end of the morning, each retailer's sampan will be a complete grocery, decked with all sorts of fruits and vegetables, rice, fish and chilli-peppers. |
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| By the far bank a knot of men, one of them wearing a green gaungbaung, were waiting beside a sampan. |
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| After breakfast, board a local sampan boat and sail through the canals to explore Cai Be's vibrant floating market, visit a charming ancient colonial house and handicraft workshop. |
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| In his early childhood, An was living on a sampan in the cajeput forests at the southern tip of Vietnam when he was swept overboard during a typhoon and nearly drowned. |
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