Introduction to Kampung Budaya Sarawak

Sarawak Cultural Village is located at Pantai Damai, Santubong just 32 km from Kuching is the best place to know the culture and way of life of the local community. Culture Village is also called 'Museum of Life' was developed to preserve and showcase the cultural heritage of Sarawak.

17-acre village has 150 residents who demonstrate daily activities tribes of Sarawak such as sago processing activities and handicrafts. Their traditional dress and traditional dance performances for visitors.From my experience, you’ll need roughly 2 hours to cover this place comfortably.

Entrance fees:

RM 60, adults (Senior Judges of foreign tourists)

RM 45, adults (people of Sarawak / i.c code 13)

RM 30, children (non-citizens)

RM 45, adults (citizens) * promo * CNY

RM 20, adults (people of Sarawak / ic code-13) * promo * CNY

RM 15, student (please show student card IPT)

Beauty Centre in Kampung Budaya Sarawak

Iban Ethnic

The Iban also live in longhouses,a communal living concept that still exists even in present days. The longhouse is often considered as a village by itself, with a leader called Tuai Rumah, often elected by the majority of the tribe members. That fact itself is small paradox to the common practice of certain countries or kingdoms which the leadership thrones are passed from one of similar descendant to another.

Bidayuh Ethnic

The Bidayuh ethnic group is further divided into smaller sub-tribal communities such asJagoi, Biatah, Bukar-Sadong, Selakau and Lara. Most of Bidayuh longhouses are built along the hill slopes of Sarawak's interiors and their main activities include rice farming, fishing and arts crafting.

Orang ulu Ethnic

the Orang Ulu Longhouse is the most impressive of all the showcase houses when it comes to appearance. The house is built on raised floors some feet above ground amidst lush tropical greenery. In fact, on first glance, you can mistake the longhouse as being an exquisite and luxurious jungle resort with its open-air veranda, superb traditional motifs painted on the totem poles, artistically-rich equipment and tools.

Melanau Ehtnic

Visitors will be amazed when first seeing the Melanau Tall House in the cultural village. It is built some 40 feet above ground that you will wonder how these tribal people, isolated from common modernity, were able to build such a behemoth. In as much as the house itself being an engineering marvel of its own, there are reasons why the house is built in such way. The main reason, according to the literature that I read, is that the coastal areas where the Melanau live are prone to frequent pirate attacks from the sea, hencethe tall house is some sort of protection against these perpetrators.

Cost and Transport to Kampung Budaya Sarawak

If you going to Kampung Budaya Sarawak, the list below show to package how to get there.

Map for travel at Kampung Budaya Sarawak

Activities in the Kampung Budaya Sarawak

Activities conducted at the Cultural Village Theatre.  Performances on that place is 12:30 pm and 3:30 pm.It takes 45 minutes to show all culture in the Kampung Budaya Sarawak.

Culture Theatre will dance the sidelines activities such as folk dance Melanau.kaum Malay, Iban and other travelers.The tourists dancing along with dancers on stage at the end of the cultural village show.

Iban dance

Ngajat is a major identity Iban Sarawak's cultural pride. The uniqueness of each performance make this ngajat these tribes are very special and distinctive. Ngajat beauty found in this community is unique and original because it is an identity Iban community full of mystique and magic of the world and distinguish people from indigenous tribes in Sarawak.

Bidayuh Dance
The Bidayuh are people who live in the southwestern part of Sarawak, especially the part Serian, Kuching and West Kalimantan. Bidayuh is quite unique compared to other languages, which are in the state. This uniqueness is based on pronunciation, speech, movement and rhythm of spoken style. Typically Bidayuh language will change the intonation and language in certain villages and districts. This causes the tribe's difficult to communicate with each other if they are of the tribe and country.

Melanau Dance
Perhaps adapted from traditional "pebayoh" to adore ipok to cure a disease. In earlier times, this dance is performed only at certain times only. Among them is during the festival Kaul to ask blessings from ipok to cheapen their fortune. Melanau dance is also associated with farming tradition by Melanau. Among the blessings asked to cut mulung or sago according to the beliefs Melanau are the keepers of this palm tree branches and petals. So to ease the process of cutting there is a dance that is done to soften figure that leave the tree and allow the farmers to cut down the sago palm.

Orang Ulu Dance
Dance is a dance Kenyah tribe in Sarawak Kenyah of various jenis.For a popular type is datun julud. The dance is usually performed to celebrate the arrival of the visitors to the longhouse. In general, the dancers dance consists daripadalapan women who will dance to the tunes alatmuzik loose. The main equipment in Kenyah dance is kenyalang.Bulu bird feathers, these feathers adorn both sides tangansetiap dancers.
Oscillation hand decorated hornbill feathers and gentle dance that causes the Kenyah dance so unique and distinctive

Melayu Dance
Malay community rich in cultural heritage in terms of musical instruments, music and dance.Dance of the most famous in Malaysia is a lively dance with an upbeat tempo. This dance, which is performed by couples with fast movements, punctuated various perturbations, derived from the Portuguese folk dance, which was introduced in Malacca during the era of the spice trade.