Wednesday, 6 June 2012

MOUNT LEDANG












Mount Ledang      
 See Mount Ledang in terms of geography, it is in Sagil, in Tangkak area adjacent to the Jasin district of Malacca. Mount as high as 4.187 feet (above sea level) past called "Mount Ophir" by the Portuguese. (The scene in the library source Lisbon, Portugal) who control the state of Malacca in 1511.           This mountain has also described the existence of gold ever discovered in a mountain called Mount Gemih. Stories of the past, when scaled Mount Ledang young people and not get up the road now. Anyone who is climb would have felt something unusual as if they were located in a beautiful place. Puteri Gunung Ledang meaning spirit still exists in Mount Ledang.IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE HISTORY Gunung Ledang IS NOT KNOWN TO PUBLIC:Ledang, according to the Dictionary of the House is in terms of the Javanese language, which means a person displaying the ego.It is believed that Mount Ledang name was coined by the Majapahit who was in power in this country before the rise of the state of Malacca. Significance of Mount Ledang is a high mountain.Information from History of China, Admiral Cheng Ho is said to have visited Mount Ledang. He said visiting the gold mines at Mount Ledang and took samples of the gold-gold for knowledge monarch.Around the summit of Mt Ledang, there are 7 primary peak. Each has its own legend.The most strange thing is that the story Legend of Mount Gemih have a gold cave guarded by their waiting a golden calf.In the old map of Portuguese, this GEMIH name written as "GUMMAY" which means a center of gold enterprises.According to Colonel Gerini (1904), Gemih still a gold mining center of the Malays in Mount Ledang until the year 1817.Rounsevelle Wildman, a famous writer from the United States have found a piece of metal taken from the mines on the banks of the River Gemih in 1894, when melted down and found to contain gold.           There is something special in Mount Ledang full of legend, which is one of three peaks named as Peak castle, believed to be the top place Puteri Gunung Ledang sit and play with dayangnya.           Discovery garden full of beautiful orchids and arranged neatly by Alfred Wakauce, a British historian in 1854, can not be regarded as normal. (In 1988, worn with Muar Travel Club has made david but failed to find this park ... and experienced many of the Unexplained supernatural events) at the place Could Hang Nadim met Puteri Gunung Ledang to convey intent to woo the hearts Sultan of Malacca and beautiful daughter of the beautiful? Or is there a place Puteri Gunung Ledang disguised as an old woman who tested the patience of the Sultan of Melaka envoy, only God alone knows ..




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