Motag Living Museum

Motag-Museum

Motag Living Museum is a unique break from Boracay’s usual sun, sand and sea combination, allowing business event delegates to explore local culture and traditions while bonding over creative activities.

Concept Located in the town of Motag, a MotagLivingMuseumAklanferry ride away from the main island of Boracay, the Museum is a real farming community that showcases the basic and simple lifestyle of the people before the advent of tourism.

The daily ablution before toilet tissue, soap and shampoo reached the town isn’t for the squeamish. The house, with basic furniture, a separate makeshift bathroom, deep well for sourcing water, areas for weaving, gathering firewood and the ricefields, among other things, are testament to the hard life.

The “actors’ – children, men, women and the elderly employed from the local community – are not acting; they’re being themselves and doing what they do in real life.  We love the old lady nonchalantly chewing and smoking tobacco, the smiling lady skilled in harvesting rice, and the friendly carabao.

MICE application A visit to the Museum can incorporate teambuilding activities which can be mounted in the ricefields, plowing the field with the carabao, fishing, climbing trees for coconuts, playing native games, building huts using coconut leaves and native materials, cooking and eating using utensils made of coconut shells, weaving mats and baskets and toys, etc.

Entrance fee is 700 pesos (US$14) per person including refreshments and tour guides, but corporate rates are negotiable.

Lunch in the Nabaoy River with cool water flowing around the feet can be arranged.

Service Everyone’s sincerity is palpable. They’re always on hand to guide us to the rice paddies and going up the house, and always polite in answering our questions.

Solicitous to the extent that after the farm trip, they will wash your feet with their own hands. One can refuse, though. Plus, they don’t hound you for service charge or tip.
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