Chanteek Borneo Indigenous Museum, Sabah, Malaysia

4cleveland_dian 5:00 PM May 7, 2016

Embracing The Wonders Of Sabah Etnicity
“EMBRACING THE WONDERS OF SABAH ETHNICITY”My first visit to Chanteek Borneo is one of the greatest experiences that I ever had during my field trips in Sabah. Basically, Chanteek Borneo is one of mini museum that displayed small mannequin that are dress up with traditional costume that shows the ethnicity of Sabah culture from all sides of places.Apart from the mannequin, they also do sell some souvenir from the beads, handicrafts and to name a few. Honestly, Chanteek Borneo is out of my expectation as soon I arrived there. The place itself portrays uniqueness and beautiful especially inside of the place itself.From the outside view can be deceiving like normal house does but as soon I step inside the Chanteek Borneo, it is basically out from my expectation although the place is small but for people that keen to culture, this is the perfect place for people to choose which resemblance all in together Sabah ethnic and multi-culture. Aside from that, they also provide lot of fun activities for guest to experience it. My trip to Chanteek Borneo was led by my lecture, Mdm. Siti Zuraini and with my classmates from UiTM KOTA KINABALU and the same with me my seniors was conducted a mini seminar at this place. Before we have a tour, we were giving brief by Abg Mohd. Ridhwan, a General Manager of Chanteek Borneo for a few hours.. Luckily, my classmates and I are able to experience Sabah traditional games such as slingshot in Malay word they called it '‘lastik’', blowpipe as in '‘menyumpit’' and many more games that technically different from any states in Malaysia including Sarawak as well. Then, after done playing traditional games, we were being taught one of the staff in Chanteek Borneo, Saiful Munir our choreographer, to dance traditional Sabah dance which are call Sumandak style and Kadazan-Dusun style. Hence, we were also got the chance to experience playing traditional music instrument such as “gong”, “gamelan”, and more. I must say, that day was pack with people and rousing with different kinds of activities that makes the place livelier especially for adults to appreciate more the beauty of Sabah culture. One of the highlight of my trip would be trying out the foods from Sabah. The food that being prepared was very unique in a way it makes me very impressive and cannot wait to dine in. Unlike all places, the environment of Chanteek Borneo was as small restaurant but feels like an a hometown environment. Despite that, I able to taste all their food and what impressed me is their food taste good and not bad for small restaurant as compare to other places. Dishes that are prepared are ‘ambuyat’ which is my favourite, ‘ikan masak lemang’, chicken curry, ‘sambal belacan’ with ladies finger, ‘jantung pisang’, ‘nasi bungkus’ and fruits. Every single one of the foods that was prepared is basically all traditional food from "kampong" style which suddenly reminds me to my hometown back in Sarawak. After our dinner, we are having night tour inside the Chanteek Borneo where they have displayed big mannequin and small ones are inside the Chanteek Borneo. Night tour was very fun and feel lively because there are many information that we gain from the conductor himself about the ethnics and cultures in Sabah. Based on my own observation, Sabah is rich with their ethnicity and the experience from the museums makes me felt as I am in any other places in Sabah. To conclude my review, for people that love culture as much as I do this would be the perfect place to visit and I recommend especially for people that choose to travel to Sabah as their next destination, please do put this at your bucket list and it is a must to go! There are so much information you can gain from the food, games and many more.

3Coltonvic 5:00 PM Mar 19, 2018

Helping the locals
This is run entirely by volunteers to show some elements of the local culture, so dont expect a lot but nice to think you are supporting the locals.