TADAU KA'AMATAN (HARVEST) CELEBRATIONS

Another year has passed as we welcomed another "Tadau Ka'amatan" Harvest Festival this week. To our friends who celebrate this occasion, we say, " Kotobian Tadau Tagazo Do Ka'amatan" 

I went over to the Hongkod Koisaan compound, the Kadazandusun Cultural Association Hall in Penampang to join in the merriment as local folks sing, dance, eat and play traditional games.  .

  The entrance of the Hongkod Koisaan, a cultural village.

The hot afternoon heat did not deter people from joining the celebration at Hongkod Koisaan.

 The traditional houses of the Kadazan-Dusun, the major ethnic groups of Sabah. 

The celebration, highlighted the cultures of almost all the state's ethnic groups through various artistic and traditional dance performances.

 Visitors participating in the most popular traditional dance "Sumazau".

It's a colourful afternoon at the "homes" of the ethnic groups. The young men and girls dressed in their traditional costumes were entertaining, busy posing for people with cameras like me. 

The "home" that offered the local food and rice wine called Tapai or Lihing.

Would you like to dance? One of the ladies asked a visitor next to me.

The drummer boy.

A beauty queen.

 Handicrafts on display.

 The F&B area.

A Queens Park Rangers' fan was manning a "fried banana" and pancake stall.

Satay of the day.

It's free for all - Visitors could park anywhere with no worry of a ticket or summon from the Traffic police on duty near Hongkod Koisaan.

" Kotobian Tadau Tagazo Do Ka'amatan"