Monday, June 23, 2008

Kawasan2 Menarik Tambunan


AIR TERJUN MAHUA

Air Terjun Mahua terletak di Kampung Patau kira-kira 12km dari Pekan Tambunan. 7km dari kampung Patau untuk sampai ke Pusat Informasi Pelancongan, pintu masuk ke Air Terjun Mahua.
Lokasi:-
Kampung Katagaian, Patau Tambunan
Daya Tarikan:-
Keaslian/Keunikan alam sekitar
Ketinggian air terjun lebih kurang 50 kaki
Tempahan dibuat melalui Majlis Daerah Tambunan

GUNUNG TRUSMADI

Anda boleh membuat pilihan destinasi di Tambunan dan kalau anda memilih untuk bergerak ke arah kampung Kaingaran, anda akan sampai di kaki Gunung Trus Madi setelah menempuh perjalanan sejauh 25km.Di tempat ini, anda akan merasa bertuah kerana sedang menjejakkan kaki Gunung Trus Madi gunung yang kedua tertinggi di Sabah selepas Gunung Kinabalu. Anda boleh meneruskan pengembaran sehingga ke puncak Trus Madi untuk menawan puncaknya pada ketinggian 8,690 kaki.
Lokasi:-
Hutan Simpanan Trusmadi Tambunan
Daya Tarikan:-
Keunikan Biodiversiti
Keadaan suhu yang sejuk
Merupakan gunung kedua tertinggi di Sabah/malaysia

BATU GONG

Lokasi:-
Kg. Solibog
Daya Tarikan:-
Seketul batu sebesar besen yang boleh menghasilkan satu set bunyi gong Kadazandusun apabila diketuk.

BATU BAJAU

Peranan batu bata dalam kehidupan manusia zaman silam telah banyak di lupakan ,malah kebanyakan generasi sekarang tidak lagi memahami sejarah dan fungsinya.Dalam keluaran kali ini beberapa buah batu yang masing masing mempunyai cerita ,sejarah dan peranan tersendirinya dimuatkan sebagai tetapan bersama.

BUNGA RAFFLESIA

Lokasi:-
Hutan Simpan Rafflesia, Tambunan
Daya Tarikan:-
Bunga Rafflesia
Air Terjun

TUGU PERINGATAN MAT SALLEH

Lokasi:-
Kg. Tibabar Tambunan
Daya Tarikan:-
Memerihalkan sejarah Mat Salleh Pahlawan Sabah

PUSAT INFORMASI RAFFLESIA

Sejauh kira-kira 80km perjalanan dari Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu, anda akan sampai di Pekan Tambunan, Pekan yang masih menampakkan persekitaran tradisional penduduknya, kadazandusun.Sebaik melepasi beberapa restoran dan motel seperti Gunung Emas, Puncak Damai dan Gunung Alab, anda akan sampai di Pusat Informasi Raffesia, pusat maklumat uang khusus membuka layanan kepada para pengunjung sepanjang masa-masa pejabat. Pusat Maklumat ini berada di sebuah kawasan Hutan Simpan Rafflesia yang turut memiliki pelbagai tumbuh-tumbuhan dara, bahan-bahan semulajadi yang sering dirujuk para pengunjung terutamanya di kalangan penyelidik.

Bungkau


The bungkau is the jaw harp of the Kadazan and Dusun people of Northern Sabah, Malaysia, located on the northeast coast of the island of Borneo. The bungkau is carved from polod palm stem, and it is either shaved or peeled to obtain a two toned design. Often bungkau are fine tuned with a piece of insect wax. Many bungkau have a bamboo tube as a container. Bungkau can be heard quite often at festivals in Sabah, and can be purchased at small traditional handicraft stores in Kota Kinabalu. This instrument was collected in Sabah in the mid 1990s.

Sompoton


Sompoton is a traditional Kadazan music instruments for the Dusun tribes in Sabah. Traditionally it was from Kampung Tikolod, Tambunan. It is now prevalent among Dusuns and Muruts. It is made of a double raft of eight bamboo pipes inserted into a gourd. Inside the gourd, seven of the pipes have small polod palm lamellae or sodi inserted into their sides and kept in place by beeswax or sopinit.

SPOTON2 The eighth soundless pipe is stopped up with sopinit. The player blows and sucks air through the gourd mouth-piece to activate the sodi. The musical sound produced can be likened to a cross between the sounds from a conventional mouth organ and a bagpipe, minus the latter's shrillness. Often it is played solo, for personal expression. If you are interest on this traditional Kadazan Dusun music instruments, you can visit any handicraft centre or Tamu in Sabah.

Monday, June 2, 2008

The KadazanDusun

This is the largest ethnic category in Sabah and is predominantly wet rice and hill rice cultivators. Their language belongs to the Dusunic family and shares a common animistic belief system with various customs and practices. Their ancient beliefs on the verity that everything has life - the rocks, trees, and rivers are all living things.

They have souls and spirits that must be appeased from time to time through specific rituals. In these modern times, some of the rituals are less performed accept during certain festivities.



Customs & Beliefs

Pesta Kaamatan or Harvest Festival is a unique celebration of Kadazandusun society. It's a celebration to honour the Rice Spirit - Bambaazon or Bambarayon and giving thanks for yet another bountiful year. The festival begins on the first of May at many district levels. The rites and customs of the Pesta Kaamatan is a tribal practice of Kadazandusun and also Murut peoples. The Bobohizan or Bobolian who are the High Priests or Priestesses (depending on the district/area undertaking the preservation) will conduct the ritual. In different districts, the priests or priestesses may be addressed to differently, for instance in Tambunan district they are known as Bobolian, in Tuaran as Tantagas and in Penampang as Bobohizan.

It is believed that rice in whatever form embodies Bambaazon that must be protected from harm. The homecoming of Babaazon is an integral part of the Harvest Festival. Ancient folklore tells of the ultimate deed of Kinoingan or Minamagun - The Almighty God or Creator, who sacrificed his only beloved daughter, Huminodun so that his people would have food. Various parts of her body were planted from which plants grew. During the Magavau ceremony, the Bobohizan will select some stalks of rice that are left undistributed until the harvest is over. In some districts, the chosen stalks are cut before the field is harvested and are then brought into the owner's house. The task of Bobohizan is to search and salvage the lost Bambaazon who are hurt or separated from the main mystical body. In the old days, this ceremony was often performed in freshly harvested fields during the first full moon after the harvest to invoke the rice spirit.

The language used by Bobohizan is archaic whose meanings have been buried in time and known only to the few remaining Bobohizan these days. The vital aspect of Magavau is the paraphernalia used to summon Bambaazon. The sacrament of Magavau may vary according to district practices but the ceremony always ends with food offerings to Bambaazon and merry making for the village folks.

The highlight of Pesta Kaamatan is the selection of the pageant queen or "Unduk Ngadau" which can be literally translated as "Zenith of the Sun". It conceptually derives from the sacrifice of Huminodun. The maiden who has the honour of being selected should bear semblance to Huminodun and will represent all that is virtuous in the revered Huminodun.