The Mount Ledang National Park ( Malay : Taman Negara Gunung Ledang ) is a national park located in Tangkak District , Johor , Malaysia . It contains the 1,276-metre tall Mount Ledang , Johor's tallest mountain. It was established in 2005, and is now one of the most famous hiking spots in the state. [1]
7-504: Mount Ledang is additionally steeped in legend. Many of the legends are centered round the mythical princess, Puteri Gunung Ledang . About 160 species of birds have been recorded in the park. This Johor location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a protected area in Asia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Puteri Gunung Ledang The legend revolves around
14-613: A celestial princess who lived on Mount Ledang , located in present-day Tangkak District , Johor , Malaysia . The sultan had heard of the princess' beauty and wanted to marry her, but she set seven impossible conditions for him. The conditions were: All the conditions were set or requested on purpose by the Princess to test the Sultan's love towards her whereby she knew that he will be unable to fulfil them due to their ridiculous and mostly not achievable or unattainable nature. The last request
21-467: A hero whose name unfailingly struck terror into the hearts of those who had dared to oppose him. However, this hero was later to die at the hands of his princess-wife. Ragam was fond of tickling the Princess's ribs. One day, in an uncontrollable burst of anger, the Princess stabbed her husband on the chest with a needle she was handling. Thereafter, the Princess returned to Mount Ophir and vowed never to set her eyes on another man. Ragam's boat, not long after,
28-467: Is rather a difficult decision for the Sultan as the Sultan's son was his only child. Some versions of the legend say that the Sultan was not able to fulfil any of these requests, while others say that he was able to fulfil the first six requests (thus causing the ruin of the Malacca Sultanate ) but could not fulfil the final request which would have required him to kill his son. The point of the story
35-404: Is that the Sultan was either too proud or too blind to realise that the conditions were the princess's subtle way of turning his proposal down. Some say that the remnants of the gold and silver bridge still exist, but have been reclaimed by the forest. Others claim that the bridges can only be seen in the spirit world. Further legend has it that the princess eventually married one Nakhoda Ragam,
42-667: The Gunung Ledang mountain being the site of rich gold deposits, luring traders from as far as the Rich. In the 14th century, the Chinese seafarers plying the Straits of Melaka called it 'Kim Sua' meaning the 'Golden Mountain'. The mountain was named 'Gunung Ledang', which means 'mount from afar', during the period of the Majapahit empire. There even locals who claimed that the golden bridge connecting to
49-415: Was crushed during a storm and legend has it that the debris of the wreck was transformed into the present six islands off Malacca. It was claimed that the boat's kitchen became Pulau Hanyut, the cake-tray Pulau Nangka, the water-jar Pulau Undan, the incense-burner Pulau Serimbun, the hen-coop Pulau Burong, and the honeymoon cabin of Ragam and the Princess became Pulau Besar. Ancient history and myth points to
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