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Banyan Tree Temple

TIME : 2016/2/17 12:34:32

If you walk out of the Vihara Dharma Sasana temple complex and keep going straight, you'll soon reach a small village where, off to the right of the main road, you'll find a particulalry unusual temple, housed in a building believed to date from 1811. Originally the house of a wealthy Chinese man, believed to be buried here, the building has, over the years, been swallowed up by the roots of a large banyan tree.

It's only in recent decades that the site has become a shrine, as locals and devotees from further afield began to come here to give offerings and ask for blessings from what is now believed to be a sacred spot.

You can get back to the jetty from here without retruning to the temple complex by taking the first left on your way back.