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Tuaran is a
town as well as a district located in West Coast Division, in the
northwest of Sabah, East Malaysia on
the island of Borneo. Tuaran district has an area of 1,166 square
kilometres and about half the population consists of ethnic Dusun and a
third are of ethnic Bajau descent. The remainder are mostly of the Chinese
community, particularly from the Hakka subgroup . It has a distinctive
nine-story Chinese pagoda as a prominent landmark.
Nearby tourist attractions are the Mengkabong Water Village and the
Penimbawan Water Village, with stilt houses built by the Bajaus over the
shore. There are three big resorts in Tuaran District: the Shangri-La's
Rasa Ria Resort, the Mimpian Jadi Resort, and the Sabandar Resort. In
addition, there are several small 'resorts' offering accommodation, food,
and water activities.
The town has the great advantage for being a stopover town for travellers
from the north towns (Kudat,
Kota Marudu, Kota
Belud, and Tenghilan) to the state capital,
Kota Kinabalu which is 34 km to the south
of Tuaran. The town has been expanding fast and but is now limited by the
Tuaran river which borders the town on three sides, almost circling it.
Every Sunday morning, Tuaran holds a big natives' open market known as
Tamu by the Sabahans. Harvests of produce from nearby villages and valleys
are brought to the market, such as fruits, vegetables, handicrafts, fish,
homemade traditional cakes, traditional homegrown tobacco, and so on. The
tamu supplies many great photo opportunities for tourists. The variety of
goods to be seen is very impressive for the visitor. The Tuaran tamu is
second only to the one in Kota Belud in terms
of size and exotica.
Sources:
Wikipedia
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