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Traveling for more than
half-an-hour along the dusty road from Kota Kinabalu
will take you to a popular tourist attraction called
the Mengkabong Water Village. Located near the quiet
town of Tuaran, this place of interest in Sabah is a Bajau
Laut, also commonly known as the Sea Bajau,
settlement. These sea gypsies of Sabah lived on
boats or in flimsy huts over the shallow waters.
Tourists will find this water village rather unique
as it is built on stilts bored into the seabed.
These rows of fairly longish houses are linked to
one another by plank walkways whereby the boats are
anchored on the sides. Sampan or canoe are their
common mode of transportation. This Bajau stilt
village offers tourists a beautiful view.
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