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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.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
Itinerary
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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.
20 minutes • Admission ticket included -
2
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.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3
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.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4
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.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free -
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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.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free -
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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.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- No refunds for cancellation received within 24 hours' notice
- Cruise Passengers take note Morning Session starts at 10.00am
- Cruise Passengers take note Afternoon Session starts at 2.00pm
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Cancellation Policy
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- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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