Honestly, it's now plastic, which makes any relevance to this particular tree irrelevant…read more Basically, the idea was that you would write your wishes down on a piece of paper and throw it onto the tree. However, with the number of wishes on the tree, the branches broke, so they decided to replace it. Honestly, that isn't how it is supposed to work, and a plastic tree certainly is not going to be able to replace, well, a real tree. Still, there isn't all that much to look at, and it is a pain to actually get here anyway. Fortunately I was able to get a cab back to civilisation.

I went here as part of a tour for CNY 2/16/18. Let's just say it was pretty busy this day. Tons of…read moretraffic in both directions. Luckily we didn't have to worry about parking since the bus dropped us off and came back to pick us up. They had many different food vendors here and also vendors selling merchandises. It was really hot this day too but I cooled by self down with a passion killer summer mock tail. It was very refreshing. Thy had folks selling these ropes that were tied to a plastic orange with a piece of paper so you can write your wish on there before tossing it onto the banyan tree. There was also a lotus wishing well. As I was walking around eating I heard some live singing over the system but didn't have time to make my way there to watch the performance.