Kota Kinabalu Trip Overview
Learn about traditional Sabahan life and the daily routines of Borneo’s ethnic groups at the Mari Mari Cultural Village. Watch a variety of demonstrations including blowpipe making, fire starting, and tattooing. Eat Sabahan delicacies during a buffet lunch and enjoy some wine tasting. You’re accompanied by your guide to this open-air museum, with hotel transport by minivan from Kota Kinabalu.
Choose from Tour Option 09:00 am / 1:00 pm / 5:00 pm.
Additional Info
Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Learn about traditional Sabahan life and the daily routines of Borneo’s ethnic groups at the Mari Mari Cultural Village. Watch a variety of demonstrations including blowpipe making, fire starting, and tattooing. Eat Sabahan delicacies during a buffet lunch and enjoy some wine tasting. You’re accompanied by your guide to this open-air museum, with hotel transport by minivan from Kota Kinabalu.
Choose from Tour Option 09:00 am / 1:00 pm / 5:00 pm.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Mari Mari Cultural Village, Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
Mari Mari Cultural Village is located deep in the countryside away from the city. The village operates a museum that preserves Borneo’s ethnic cultures. it aims to share the knowledge , history , culture and tradition of Borneo with you so it it not forgotten.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Sabah, Sabah
The Kadazandusun of Sabah are traditionally paddy cultivators. While those living in the hills and and further inland cultivate dry paddy, the inhabitants of coastal plains and valley grow the wet variety.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Sabah, Sabah
A Rungus Longhouse is made up of 7 to 15 family apartments. Traditional longhouse house is build from wood, bamboo and atap (palm leaves). To avoid flood and wildlife such as snake, the house is lift off the ground by stilts made of hard wood such as bogil, belian ironwood, mangrove wood and manzalangan. The roof is dry palm leaves of sago or nipah and needs to be replaced every 3 to 5 years.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Sabah, Sabah
Lun Bawang people are traditionally agriculturalists , rearing poultry , pigs and buffaloes. Lun Bawang are also known to be hunters & fishermen. Meat & Fish are brined or pickled using salt and is stored in hallow bamboo stalks for a duration of a month. Meat & Fish are also preserve by smoking. Salt is obtain from evaporating brine from salt springs.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Sabah, Sabah
Bajau are commonly known to westerners as Sea Gypsies. Originally seafarers, their are now two distinct groupsEast Coast Bajau & West Coast Bajau. The west coast Bajau has settle down and learn the art of farming & cattle rearing. Their skills in horsemanship is very known locally. They are the famous cowboys of Sabah. The east coast Bajau however still live i traditional ways. Fishing is their main activities and some are still nomadic boat dwellers. The Bajau are skilled fishermen.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Sabah, Sabah
The Murut were the last of Sabah ethnic group to renounce headhunting. The Murut were shifting cultivators or hill paddy & tapioca , supplementing their diet with blowpipe hunting and with some fishing. They live in communal longhouses usually near rivers , using the rivers as their highways.
Duration: 20 minutes
