Tangkuban Perahu's History

Mount Tangkuban boat has a unique history and legendary stories of the life journey of a daughter of the king of the Dayang Sumbi. However, due to his negligence, he eventually married a dog because of his oath as well. And they are blessed with a son named Sangkuriang. But in the mid-adolescent age, Sangkuriang accidentally killed his own father, and eat a meal. And finally Sangkuriang and his mother were separated.

After Sangkuriang growing up, she returned with her ​​mother met and fell in love with him, though he did not know that she is her own mother. Dayang Sangkuriang apply until Sumbi becoming his wife. But Dayang Sumbi denied and requested that the terms Sangkuriang must make a dam that can cover the entire mountain, and make a boat to traverse the dam. All that must be completed before dawn. When Dayang Sumbi see that Sangkuriang almost completed its work, he prayed to the gods to thwart his son's work and accelerate the arrival of the morning. Rooster crows, the sun rises earlier than usual and Sangkuriang realized that he had been deceived. With so angry he cursed Dayang Sumbi and kicked almost a homemade boat to the middle of the woods. The boat had been there in a state of reversed, and the shape of Mount Tangkuban Boat (boat is upside down).