Elephant Mountain Dalat

An introduction to Elephant Mountain in Dalat

Around Da Lat, Lang Biang mountain range also has Elephant mountains 1,756m high to the west and south. Nui Voi is reminded much through the stories and legends of the peoples of the South Highlands, have close ties with the indigenous people in the anti-invasion of protecting the homeland of Dalat.

The Story of Elephant Mountain

According to ancient legends of the Lat, the story occurs in the old times, animals, flowers still have sympathy with people, hear and speak the human language and then the peoples living separately, in La Ngu Thuong There is a guy called Lang is the chief of the Lat tribe. He has a great health, he is very smart and very humankind, have the ability to conquer wild animals, even elephants, wild animals like tigers, snakes, ... In fourteen, he has conquered two elephants In La Ngu Ha village. He advised two elephants back to work for the village. when Lang was twenty years old, one day casually Lang saved Biang a beautiful daughter of chief K'ranh of the Sre from the attack of the snake and wolf in the forest that Bian picking fruit. Since then, after the meeting of the boy and girl, the two have loved each other though different tribes and far apart. Biang love Lang news is spread throughout the mountains La Ngu Thuong. All plants and animals are happy and happest are the two happy elephants in La Ngu Ha,had obey him, go to work diligent, transport timber back to the villagers to made houses, bridges over the stream, ... two elephants are looking forward to the wedding of Lang and Biang to have the opportunity to meet him and celebrate the wedding ceremony. But Lang and Bian's wedding never happened. Because when Biang begged her father K'r Rien's chief of catching Lang for her husband, K'jordan had disagreed only because of the custom not to allow Lat's descendants to be admitted to Sre descendants. Although Bian insisted: "Bap (father)". Biang said, "If you do not allow to catch Lang, then I will not marry anyone else, I will only want Lang."

Biang then told Lang that their wedding was not successful. As Biang recounted, standing on La Ngu Thuong, Lang's eyes looked at a La Ngu Ha sadly said to Biang: "I know that our ethnic groups now have many unaccepted-law. We must fight against those unreasonable rules and those who make our village miserable. " Biang nodded in agreement. Then, Lang and Bian sat quietly on a mountaintop despite the night down, then, The couple decided to stay together until die. All species of La Ngu Thuong. Most admirable are the two elephants with the idea of going to Lang and Bian's wedding but when they come they heard Lang and Bian news died and that was a funeral. Two painful elephants try to cross a road heading to Mount Ba Thao (Prenn), exhausted, fall down, die into two Elephant mountains. At the funeral, the chief of the K'rong tribe Sre was present. He regretted his darkness, smugness. At the wish of the two at death, he met the chiefs of the two villages to remove the previous rules for their next generation can stay together,

Source: Dalat Tourism Lam Dong, 1986, No. 1