Planning for Sabah holiday? A piece of advise. Do insert into your schedule a trip to Monsopiad Cultural Village. It looked and sounded boring, but trust us it is not. Far from it. This cultural village is located within the Kota Kinabalu town, but it will take you close to 30 minutes if you were to take a cab or car from the city center.
Once you reached this place, there shall be a tour guide waiting to assist you. She will bring you on a tour while explaining something similar to this..
This Monsopiad Cultural Village is originally a home of a Kadazan-Dusun tribe, whom were a 3rd largest tribe in Sabah. They are also known as a tribe who love to hunt - head hunt. This is a c
ompletely different from head-hunter guys in KL who obviously searching and placing people from one workplace to another. But this Monsopiad guys head hunt the real head. They have to do this to protect their own villages and land from their enemy. When there are intruders, the warrior will fight and chopped the intruder's head. When the story of head being chopped if someone were to disturb this village being spreaded out, no one is dare to come except for those stubborn, cold-blooded hardcore gangsters (at that time). This is the message this Monsopiad community were trying to the outside world. Disturb our peaceful life, you'll pay with your head. Direct to the point. They looked at these heads, some sort like a trophy. More trophy = gain more respect from their own community.
ompletely different from head-hunter guys in KL who obviously searching and placing people from one workplace to another. But this Monsopiad guys head hunt the real head. They have to do this to protect their own villages and land from their enemy. When there are intruders, the warrior will fight and chopped the intruder's head. When the story of head being chopped if someone were to disturb this village being spreaded out, no one is dare to come except for those stubborn, cold-blooded hardcore gangsters (at that time). This is the message this Monsopiad community were trying to the outside world. Disturb our peaceful life, you'll pay with your head. Direct to the point. They looked at these heads, some sort like a trophy. More trophy = gain more respect from their own community. This tribe doesn't believe in God, but they believe in spirits. Spirits of fire, spirits of tree, spirits of skull, etc. That is why, in their believe the spirit of skulls will help them to protect from everything evil or unexpected things. For your information, those chopped head (that had been preserved for years) are well kept within a house. The House of Skull. At first, from outside the entrance looked pretty scary. But once you're in the house, slowly it will disappear.
When you are about to enter the door, you need to say "Siou Do Monoing" (a Kadasan-Dusun wording) which means "Hello". This is some sort like in any cases, definitely you need to ask permission to enter from the host. Normal right?
Cool. Now you are in the House of Skull. You'll able to see right away on top of your head, a long stretch of head which most of them still had blood on to them. Very interesting to view. Here, we are attaching the picture for your viewing pleasure. Hahahaha.
Once you are done with the Tour Of Skull, you'll be entertained by the dancers. You're able to watch their traditional dances in a showcase. The place is very nice, with a stage and located exactly at a river-bank. There are a group of very skillful dancers together with a team of musicians. To tell you the truth, your children will love them! Hey, we have a sample among many of their dances. Just check out this one. Sorry we can't upload all of them, since to upload this one also takes years to finish. Enjoy!
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