Learning about Sabah's diverse groups with a taste of tuhau, bosou and other delicacies


The writer and her group crossing the hanging bridge at the village.

Sometime in early 2020, before the Covid-19 movement control order began, a group of senior citizens (myself included) from the Klang Convent Old Girls Association went on a trip to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

We visited the Mari Mari Cultural Village on one of the days we were in KK. When we arrived at the village, I was not too impressed by how it looked so I lowered my expectations of the place.

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