Siquijor's Banyan Tree

Siquijor is famously known around the Philippines as the Island of witch craft and black magic. Apparently the island used to come alive at night with fire flies glowing and flying around. The rumour is that the Spanish first spotted Siquijor off the shore at night because the island lit up in the evening! Now I guess they still live in the trees but you have to go up into the mountains to find them. While we were out one evening at Coco Grove there were a few spotted in the trees flickering on and off but nothing like the stories I've read about. Along with these mystical legends of fire flies lighting up childrens cheeks and black magic healers there is the Banyan or “Balete” tree which holds the title as the oldest tree on Siquijor Island.
A Banyan tree starts off as a seed that finds it's way into a small snug spot like a crevice of another tree trunk and as it grows it's roots shoot out in every direction with a small trunk also starting to grow. Soon the roots take over and outgrow the trunk and continue taking over trees in the near area and also having it's own roots start forming it's own new Banyan trees. They can grow around in a circle leaving a small hollow center with these tree roots as it's walls where these natural healers will go and set up a special place to work their potions and rituals, oooOOooo.
Anyway this tree is apparently over 800 years old according to our guide!? I believe him, it was pretty huge and he referred to it as being just like the tree from Avatar. Looks about right to me, now we just need to find a bunch of wierd looking blue people and we got ourselves Pandora.