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Popular Local Customs | Miscellaneous Local Customs Tips | All Tips (6) The various local ethnic groups take pride in displaying their own forms of dances for tourists and during festivals and rituals. The biggest festival celebrated in Sabah is the "Hari Gawai" or Harvest Festival. During the 3-day Gawai festival, there is continuous dancing and performances taking place and an air of festivity fills the air. Tuak, a type of home brewed rice wine is drunk in large quantities, and sometimes offered to visitors and tourists. I am not sure what this tuak tastes like, but I believe that it is not drunk with taste in mind! Rather it is drunk more with the intention of relaxing after the hard work of the rice harvest...if you get my drift. (hehe)
At other times of the year, dances are performed by various dance troupes at hotels and cultural villages and shopping malls. The most famous dance troup is the Sabah Tourism Board Dancers. At the end of the show, an unsuspecting tourist is usually roped in to complete the dance (see pics). It is really fun to try to join in or to watch! Leave a Comment
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Tamu is known as Sunday Flea Market, where traders and consumer's will meet and trading all kinds of stuff from fruits, vegetables, handicrafts, traditional music instrument and etc. Leave a Comment
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I heard from my moutain guide and the local staff from my hotel that Mt. Kinabalu is a mountain with great tradition.
It is believed that while climbing up this mountain, do so with respect and silence.
Don't climb up the moutain noisely. It is not auspicious.
As amatuer trekkers, we went up the moutain silently complained how tough the journey was. Of the 4 of us who went up, 3 of us came down with gastric flu and vomitted while coming down.
Not sure how true that belief was, but just for your info.
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