Fortune Dragon Statue

The Fortune Dragon Statue to be the world’s largest dragon tunnel with a length of 115 meters but this cannot be correct since they were building a 21 km long dragon in China’s Henan Province a few years ago, but this massive project attracted some criticism so I don’t know if it was ever completed.

The Fortune Dragon snakes its way around the garden and visitors enter through the dragon’s mouth and exit near the tail. Inside there are 144 steps up and down.

The interior walls of the dragon are lined with a series of traditional Chinese paintings with captions in Chinese, Malay and English. The first series of paintings concerns the subject of filial duty and tell stories of sons and daughters who went to great lengths to honour, protect and serve their parents. For example a boy who slept outside his father’s room at night and exposed his bare skin to the bites of swarms of mosquitos so that the bugs would not disturb his father’s sleep. There is no mention of whether the boy caught malaria as a result!

Then there is the story of a son’s wife who breast-fed her aged mother-in-law when the old woman could no longer eat solid food. That’s a bit weird!

The second section of paintings describe the Ten Chambers of Hell and illustrate the gory fate which awaits sinners of various kinds in the next world. This is a theme which you can find in other temples around Malaysia such as Chin Swee Caves Temple and Tua Pek Kong Temple, where they have a similar walk-in dragon, though not as elaborately designed.

The gardens are beautifully landscaped with koi ponds, water features, statues, a temple, gazebos and ornamental planting. I visited during the day time but there is coloured lighting everywhere so it must look equally nice after dark

Ticket Prices

• Adult RM 25
• Child less than 135cm RM 10
• Child less than 110 cm FREE
• Seniors age 60+ with myKad RM 10
• Yong Peng Residents with myKad RM 10