The Avatar Tree is a giant willow-like aged-tree
that is said to be the largest and the oldest surviving tree of Cagwait
Municipality. It is situated about 10 kilometers from the White Beach of Cagwait.
The Avatar Tree was named after the movie The
Avatar as the natural facets of this more than century old tree is similar to
that of the “Tree of Souls” which is a point of extreme spiritual significance.
After our momentum sun-kissed experience at the
Cagwait White Beach, me and my girlfriend decided to visit the Avatar Tree as well which is about 8 kilometers away from the beach to make our travel more satisfying and grandeur. We hired a local
motorcycle called the “habal-habal” for P80.00 from Cagwait White Beach to the
vicinity of the Avatar Tree including our drop off to the bus area. That’s
about 15-20 kilometers from the highway of the municipality.
The Avatar Tree is located approximately 25-30
meters from the seashore where it sits 3 men to hug its rough diameter. Its
clean environment is maintained by the locals within the area where the
old-aged tree shields the locality with its expanding brushwood. It gives me
that impression of the Avatar Tree being a sacred tree to protect its vicinity
like increasing its sense of protection and security.
According to our guide and even some of the locals
who lived within the area, the Avatar Tree was about to buy by a multi-dollar
company to expand its business and even promote a modernized environment of
people and nature. Unfortunately and fortunate enough, the locals declined such
offer as they believed that the Avatar Tree is a Sacred One and must be
protected by all means necessary.
The Battle of this Tree of Life is said to be
continuous as rumors has its stake that it could be bought by foreign investors
with proposals more appealing to that of the other companies. If that company
might get what they desired for, the Avatar Tree would be depicted with the
same heartrending outcome of that of the Tree of Life in the Avatar movie.
It is most describe as:
“Approximately
a week after jake Sully, Grace Augustine, and Norm Spellman escaped from the
RDA prison facility, Miles Quaritch initiated a full-scale assault on the Na’vi
race, the main objective being to annihilate the Tree of Souls in order to
clear the Na’vi away from the corporation’s unobtanium mining efforts. Quaritch
knew that the Na’vi would not come withing a large radius of the devastated
Tree of Souls should it be destroyed.
Though
Colonel Quaritch’s forces managed to outgun, outfight, and eventually rout the
numerically superior Na’vi forces, his plan eventually failed due to the
massive intervention of Pandora’s megafauna, compounded by lack of SecOPs force
coordination from the increasing intensity of the planet’s Flux Vortex. The
tree was not damaged during the battle, although the explosives meant for it
reached within a kilometer of its resting place.”
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