About Langkawi Island

ABOUT LANGKAWI ISLAND

LANGKAWI ISLAND is not a single large. It is a cluster of 99 island in MALAYSIA waters.

Actually there are 5 more small island that remain submerged and can something be seen during low tide, And most of these islands that comprise Langkawi are real tiny and uninhabited.

Langkawi was historically home to seafarers, such as the “ ORANG LAUT” originally from the southern part of the Malay peninsula, as well as pirates and fisherman. It had long been thought to be cursed accoding to local legend, in the late 18^th century, a women “MAHSURI” who was wrongfully accused ff adultery and put to death, place a curse on the island that would last for 7 generations from first generation, not so long after Mahsuri’s death, in 1821, the Siamese army invaded Kedah, and attacked Langkawi. In the first attack,

Photo Art Of Mahsuri

7 Generation from the story of Mahsuri ( Wan Aishah ) 

The locals decided to burn down the granary  “PADANG MATSIRAT” to starve and drive out the Siamese army. The Siamese nevertheless finally captured the island in year 1822, and killed its leaders, and many of the islanders were taken as slaves, while others were forced to flee first.Langkawi remained as a quid backwater until 1986 when the then Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad decided to transform  it into a major tourist resort, helping to plan many of the island building himself.