From the beginning, the earth’s geotectonic plates have been shifting beneath its surface, breaking up and accreting several huge land masses to from the continents we know today. Some 210 million years ago a highly significant movement created the southeast Asia zone when large blocks of sedimentary rock piled on top of one another and hot magma rose from the earth’s inner core rose up and solidified to from various mountain and range of granitic rock. one series of cataclysmic folding movement,beginning more than one hundred million years ago, pushed the tall himalayas to the roof of the planet.  It also raise a large mound of rock and limestone that had been crushed and packed at the bottom of the sea over millions of years and left a small group of islands off the coast of what would eventually come to be called Malaysia.These ripples broke the surface of the Andaman sea here and there and, as they came up against the peninsular Malaysia, one mound of hot magma squirmed up some 800 meters top from Gunung Raya, one of the two mountains of Langkawi. At about the same time an ancient mountain of sandstone rose from the sea to reign as Gunung Matchinchang, its mythical nemesis. Torrential rains smoothed down jagged peaks and the island settled, some part disappearing again beneath the sea. Others were left standing as tall limestone spires. Crashing seas bored submarine caves into rock while rivers cut deep chasms. As this grinding and gouging continued, the land was formed. Eventually, with the birth of modern rain forest, 12 million years ago, it all came under a cover of rich green growth steeped in legend and populated by the unique flora and fauna which today attracts the wold’s foremost naturalist.