Monsopiad Culture Village was open in 1996. This culture village was set up to memorized of the great Kadazan Worrior and Headhunter called Monsopiad. The Monsopiad Culture Village are located beside the penampang river and situated about 16 kilometres from the City of Kota Kinabalu.

History of Monsopiad

Monsopiad was born and brought up in a village called kuai, where his material grandfather was the headman. The village however, did not have enough warrior and was often plundered by robber. During each attack, the villagers had no choice but to retreat and hide in nearby jungle until it was safe to return to their home.

As a grandson of the village headman, Monsopiad received special training and turned out to be an excellent fighter and grew up to become a worrior. Well-equipped, he vowed to hunt down and fight off the worriors that had terrorised his village for so long. He will bring back their head as trophies, he claimed and hang them from the roof of his house. Just as he promised, Monsopiad's journey to rid his village of the robbers was successful and upon coming home , he was given a hero's welcome. He was so honoured by the welcome that he proclaimed that he will destroy all of his village's enemies and the villagers call him as headhunter worrior.

Why Monsopiad Culture Village so special?

• you can see kazadazan Dusun traditional
  dance
• you can see different building traditional houses.
• you also can taste traditional food of kadazan dusun

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