You may never have heard of this tree, but it is essential to the work we do with Ayahuasca here on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and provides a guiding hand in every aspect of our lives. Noya Rao is an Amazonian tree once thought to be extinct and shrouded in lore and mystery. Also known as Palo Volador or the flying tree, due to the legend that it bestows the gift of flying. Indeed, tales exist of whole villages ascending into the atmosphere to become part of a different dimension/reality altogether.