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This guide to Son Tra's ancient banyan opens with a disagreement: botanists who measured its tangled, multi-trunked root system in 2014 put its age at just over eight hundred years, while locals insist it is closer to a thousand. You'll hear the two very different explanations residents give for hikers who have vanished on the mountain nearby. Fighters in the wars against France and the United States are said to have used the tree's shaded clearing as a hidden meeting point.