Gesing giant banyan (near Munduk)

The roots of this banyan form a maze large enough to walk among, and one account says they once hid villagers from the Dutch. It stands outside Gesing, a village in the north Bali highlands south of Munduk, and the community keeps it as a sacred place. A spirit living in it is said to grant wishes. Most of what is written about it comes from travel pages that repeat one another, so read every fact here as told rather than checked. Tradition puts the tree at over 700 years. Nobody has dated it, and the same figure is told of the Kayu Putih tree near Marga, so it may have travelled between the two. One page concedes it holds no records for size. We have no recent dated photograph, and our pin is approximate. Maps show one banyan here and another about 290 metres along the same road, which may be a second tree or the same one marked twice. We found no clear word on entry, fees or hours either, beyond one visitor's complaint about parking touts. If you have stood under it, tell us where it is and what you found there. A short track leads to it from Gesing, signposted in the village, off Jalan Pura Puseh. Munduk is about 5 km away, 5 to 15 minutes by car depending on the source, and Ubud roughly an hour and a half. There is no bus; trekkers walk it from Munduk in about an hour.