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<\/a>The captain\u00a0of a sampan boat steers her boat down the narrow inlets to\u00a0the Mekong River; My Tho, Vietnam<\/p><\/div>A sampan<\/em> (meaning “three planks”) is a flat-bottomed wooden boat used for transportation through rivers or other costal areas. Sampan boats are typically propelled by oars or a pole (yuloh<\/em>) and are common in rural areas of Southeast Asia, such as\u00a0Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sampan (meaning “three planks”) is a flat-bottomed wooden boat used for transportation through rivers or other costal areas. Sampan boats are typically propelled by oars or a pole (yuloh) and are common in rural areas of Southeast Asia, such … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[1377,614,1476,930,430,1467,1468,1466,1478,1477,263,1475,1393,1391],"class_list":["post-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-photography","tag-asia","tag-blackwhite","tag-boat-rides","tag-canals","tag-feet","tag-mekong-delta","tag-mekong-river","tag-my-tho-vn","tag-oars","tag-paddles","tag-rivers","tag-sampan-boat","tag-southeast-asia","tag-vietnam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions\/6193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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