To the uninitiated visitor, the sight of people excitedly chucking fancy dressed up oranges strewn with ribbons and brightly colored papers into the giddy heights of a Banyan tree might be a little hard to understand. This colorfully decorated tree in the Tai Po district of the New Territories is a wishing tree. Visitors use ribbons to wrap special prayers and colorful wish sheets around an orange and then throw them into the tree. If they stick in the tree, the wishes come true. Don't be dismayed if your wish doesn't stick on the first try, many visitors throw the orange again and again, until finally, the fruit lodges in a crook on the lowest branch. Relieved, they clap their hands a bit, bow, and pray. They then scurry off, their fate secured in the permanence of the Banyan tree. to next feature...