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Mari-Mari Cultural Village Tour Including Lunch

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Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
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  • 5 hours (approx.)
  • Pickup offered
  • Group discounts
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English

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Overview

Explore the Mari-Mari Cultural Village in Sabah with a dedicated guide on this shared tour. You'll enjoy personalized attention and the ability to travel at your own pace as you learn about Borneo's ancient and modern culture. Activities include a traditional house tour, a cultural show, and a traditional local lunch.
  • House tour and demo
  • Traditional lunch and high tea
  • Cultural show and performance
  • Shared tour for just you and your party

What's Included

  • Roundtrip Transportation
  • English Speaking driver
  • Local Lunch / High Tea
  • House Tour with demo
  • Activities and cultural performance
  • Hotel pick up and drop off (Centrally located KK)
  • Lunch
  • Other food and drinks
  • Any other things not mentioned

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

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Pickup details

Our driver will pickup you from your hotel lobby.

Itinerary

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Mari Mari Cultural Village

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.4
based on 48 reviews
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Driver was fantastic 👌

BillyL_W, Dec 2025
Plan for rainy weather. While rain was the most difficult, it actually improved the true feeling of life in the jungle.

It was a great experience...

Linda_Y, Dec 2025
It was a great experience to learn about the four tribes and their lifestyles. The cultural performance was awesome! The food was great as well.

Really good

Giovanna_T, Oct 2025
Really nice people, we learnt a lot and they have a well structured tour. You can try different foods and beverage from each tribe

Very enjoyable

John_S, Sep 2025
Very enjoyable, informative and interesting. Our English speaking Mari Mari guide was good. Lots of sampling of tribal eats and drinks. Very busy so groups overlapped. Taxi driver Napoleon was great.

Very good tour.

DanRutherford, Apr 2025
Very good tour. Guide was excellent and very knowledgeable. Taxi pick up was prompt and kept me up to date on WhatsApp.

It is not a private tourit is it fake and wrong

Craig_B, Mar 2025
IT IS NOT A PRIVATE TOUR you will be with 12 other people and wait and wait for everyone to be ready . The tour company doesn t answer to you before during or after the tour. The village is cute ! Don t expect Viator to refund because they don t care so go to other companies.

Fun way to learn more about Malaysian Culture

Jennifer_G, Oct 2024
Excellent guide Mac. Well worth the trip and money. Included ride to and from hotel. And a meal with lots of options.

Good learning experience

Hege, Oct 2024
I am not going to fault anything here, it was an amazing experience. The guides were amazing ( our guide was Aril) and we felt really good taken care of. They are all knowledgeable and really want people to learn about the culture and the tribes of Borneo. The traffic can be horrible, it can rain, changes can happen to your trip, but none of this matters as long as the experience is great, and it really was 🙂 Thank you so much 🙂

No value add

Firdaus_N, Oct 2024
The tour itself was excellent. 5 stars to the experience, and our guide Zul was engaging. The transport there left much to be desired and was overpriced after i calculated how much the ticket price cost us. The driver was late in picking us up, saying he had to go to the carwash, and the main coordinator said no rush when we contacted him. There is no value add for this package - only overpriced private transfer and the driver going over to register for you at the venue. Book this only if its last minute and you cannot get your own transport.

Amazing experience

Michael_B, Oct 2024
A wonderful time and great experience for our family. Zul was our guide and was not only informative but so funny as well. Highly recommend!!!

Great day discovering cultural history

John_H, Sep 2024
Very informative about the history of the tribes, their housing and their food and drink. Lead by a very informative guide.

Interesting and exciting

Chua_L, Sep 2024
The guides were lively, staff were welcoming. There was food tasting. We got a good insight to how the native tribes lived. Dance performance was very good

Head out to the head hunters

Rachel_D, Jul 2024
Great experience, very interactive and informative. Our guide Zul was very engaging and knowledgeable. An experience for the whole family. Highly recommend and worth the visit.

Loved the Cultural Village but Not the Tour Operator

rmschmitt, Jun 2024
The cultural village was great, but I do not recommend booking through this tour operator. I am a solo traveler and Viator only lets you book if you pay for two people (found out later I could have booked private transport for much less than they’re charging), and to my surprise ended up being a private transfer. I wasn’t feeling well that day so I told the driver I was skipping lunch and asked if we could head back early. He said we had to stay for lunch, so I assumed we were transporting others back. However it ended up being me sitting there for an extra 45 minutes watching my driver have a casual lunch with his friend, smoke a cigarette, then buy a drink and chat some more just to be transported by myself back to my hotel. Seems odd to make me wait that long for my driver when I was basically forced to pay for a private transfer.

Great Day

Yvonne_H, Mar 2024
We had a private booking for 8 people. Unfortunately the driver could only take 7 and 1 of our group was seperated and put in somebody elses car. The tour was very nice, informative and absolutely worth doing.

Enjoyable morning

Ron_W, Feb 2024
Village experience was interesting experience and the guide appeared very knowledgeable, dance performance and music was entertaining, food was reasonable but disappeared quickly. Unfortunately our driver appeared disinterested, his vehicle stunk of smoke, he was impatient, and certainly not appreciated

Don't book through Viator or TripAdvisor

James_W, Dec 2023
We were really looking forward to this. That is why we booked it several weeks in advance. We were to arrive on a cruise ship and wanted to make sure we could get there and back in the time we had ashore. Everything was set up and fully paid in advance. We even got an additional confirmation the day before our tour. We arrived 20 minutes early before our 9 am pick up. At 9:02 we get a message asking us if we can do the afternoon show instead. We cannot because of our ship's departure time. That is why we booked this weeks in advance. "We have too many people. Can you come another day?" No, we are here on a cruise ship for today only. That is why we booked in advance. If you don't have room, why did you take our money 3 weeks ago? Why did you send a confirmation yesterday? Conclusion: Don't book through Viator or TripAdvisor. Find some way to book direct or you will likely miss out.

Great tour!...

Andras_K, Oct 2023
Great tour! The guide was very informative in the village And luch was good as well It’s quite close and a good experience for adults and kids

Highly rated

Tim_A, Jul 2023
Great tour guides and experiences. It was pouring rain when we visited, but still a great experience (they sell cheap ponchos if needed)

Highs and lows, better ways to do it.

Hakan_N, Apr 2023
This tour had highs and lows. Starting with the lows: The transport to the village was disappointing. The driver showed up late and did not communicate anything in advance. The car was far from ideal for a family of for, the 3 in the back really had to squeeze to fit. And on the way back we made a stop at a gas station even though the driver had approx 3 hours to sort that while we were in the village. The high was the village tour itself that I would highly recommend. Very friendly guide and interesting tour. My recommendation would be to book a Grab to the village and buy the tickets there. The drive in this tour had very little value add.

Interesting information

Liene_B, Mar 2023
It was very interesting to see and hear about life in Borneo many years, get information about headhunters

flash back in Borneo's history

Cuneyt_B, Aug 2022
In two hours we have met all the communities that have lived in Borneo, their daily life, their traditions. The guide was energetic and nice. I loved tasting the authentic drinks and food

Great experience

Surabhi_M, Jun 2022
Our driver/ guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. The village tour was an incredible experience with lots of demonstrations. Our guide within the village was very entertaining and interactive. It would have been nice to have a lunch at village but unfortunately not available so we enjoyed modern day local lunch instead.

The driver/guide was very...

Max_Y, May 2022
The driver/guide was very late to pick us up and very late to bring us back to our hotel. Lunch was supposed to be included but it wasn't.

Very interesting. A very...

Thierry_A, Feb 2026
Very interesting. Very good value for money. Interesting taste experience. Well managed flow despite the world
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