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Kota Belud Sightseeing - Tour from Kota Kinabalu

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Activity Schedule

  • When does it run?

    Sunday

  • Duration

    8 hours

  • Start time

    7:30am

  • Meeting Point
    Pick up from your hotel. (Please mention your hotel name and address at the time of booking. If you do not have this information now, our customer service executives will get in touch and confirm the details)
  • Ending Point

    Your hotel in Kota Kinabalu.

Key Highlights

  • Experience the fascinating aspects of Kota Belud
  • See the major points of interest in Sabah
  • Look for keepsakes at a colorful village market
  • Visit the gong-making factory at Kampung Sumangkap
  • See the famous honey bees of Kampung Gombizau
  • Choose from a group coach tour or a private tour

Overview


Travel through the heart of the Malaysian state of Sabah and enjoy its many fascinating aspects. Admire the landscapes as you go from the capital city of Kota Kinabalu to Kota Belud, home to Sabah’s most colourful weekly tamus, where all the locals gather to sell their traditional wares. Join them in their lively exchange of news and views and buy anything from exotic fruits to silky sarongs from them, and dig into some tasty pisang goreng while you are there.

Visit the gong-making factory at Kampung Sumangkap and the famous Honey Bee Village in Kampung Gombizau, where honey bees are reared. Other attractions in Kota Belud include Bavanggazo longhouse of the Rungus, the main ethnic group living in the Kudat district. The longhouse is a unique example of family life and togetherness.

Itinerary

This tour is available in two options – coach and private. The private option offers you greater flexibility and you can spend as much or as little time at any of the places that you visit. Unlike the tight schedules of coach tours, the private option allows you to do the tour at your own pace.

Get picked up from your hotel in Kota Kinabalu and set out in a coach/private vehicle for an ethnic sightseeing tour of Sabah. The tour highlights are :

• Tamu at Kota Belud: Enroute from Kota Kinabalu, stop briefly at the hill town of Kota Belud where the locals gather at the “tamu" (weekly market) grounds every week to barter and bargain and exchange news and views. This is also one of Sabah’s most famous ‘tamus’.

• Kampung Sumangkap: The tour then takes you to the gong-making factory at factory of Kampung Sumangkap where you will watch the artisans at work. Gongs are the most prevalent of Sabah's idiophones and are found throughout Sabah. They are made of brass and bronze. Each gong has a name indicating its sound or rhythm it plays and it varies from village to village. Visitors can watch skilled craftsman make gongs at various stages at Kampung Sumangkap.

• Kampung Gambizou (Honey-Bee Village): Less than a kilometre away from Kampung Sumangkap, you can watch honey-bee rearing at this quaint Honey-Bee Village. See the entire process of rearing honey-bees, gathering and preparing the honey for sale. Don’t forget to pick up a jar of honey for yourself.

• Bavanggazo longhouse: Head northwards, passing by vast oil palm and coconut plantations, and visit the Bavanggazo longhouse located in the Kudat district, which is about 160 kilometres to the north of Kota Kinabalu. The Rungus are the main ethnic group living in the Kudat district and the Bavanggazo longhouse is a great example of the cultural heritage of this people. The longhouse is a simple but sturdy structure made easily of materials like palm leaves for roofing, bamboos for floors, fragile barks for walling and flimsy timbers for supports held together by elaborate knots, which the people have been using for centuries to tie everything firmly in place.

At the end of the tour, you will be dropped back at your hotel in Kota Kinabalu.

Inclusions

  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • English-speaking guide
  • Lunch
  • Entrance Fee to honey bee farm

Please note

Voucher Information: Sorry, but we will need you to print a paper version of your booking voucher (we're working on changing this). At this time no refund can be given for customers without a printed copy of their voucher.

Kota Belud Tamu opens only on Sundays.

Pick-up from Tuaran will be 30 minutes prior to the tour start time.

A surcharge directly payable might be applicable for hotel transfers from outskirts of Kota Kinabalu.

Surcharge will be imposed on all tours/packages ex-outskirt hotels (Nexus Karambunai, Shangri-la Rasa Ria, Beringgis etc):MYR55 per person (return).

Additional info

The confirmation voucher includes the local activity operator’s contact details. They’re a nice bunch, and will happily answer any logistical questions you may have. Please give them a call at least 24 hours before your organised  activity to reconfirm.

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