Bali52 Beautiful Bali

1. Beautiful Bali

2. Bali 52

3. Cacao in Bali is a treasure. Protected from industrial cocoa production trends that raise cacao trees with high yields, disease resistance and high fat content at the cost of flavor, the cacao found throughout the Island of the Gods is some of the rarest and most magical.

4. Indonesia is currently the world’s third largest producer of cacao beans

5. Bali Cacao is one of the last remaining under-commercialized, under-manipulated origins of cacao on earth Drying beans on wood platforms under a tent

6. Drying beans in the sunlight

7. Checking the beans for perfect drying

8. Checking for poor quality beans

9. Cocoa powder done by hand

11. The alchemy art of growing cacao and making artisan chocolate is a craft known only to a few. All artisan chocolate products (whether they be liquor, couverture or finished chocolate) start with best quality cacao beans removed from extremely fresh pods and fermented for a few days to enhance the flavor ‘pre-cursors’ of the ultimate chocolate.

13. Beautiful market in Denpasar

14. Many locals come to Market to buy canangsari or Balinese offerings that you will have seen at almost every residence and place of business in Bali.

16. Bali is a great place to find some exotic flora

18. Orchids are a favourite decorative flower in Bali, and they are cultivated everywhere. Orchids are called Anggrek in Bali

20. Dendrobium tortile is a species of orchid, commonly known as the Twisted Dendrobium

21. Bunga cempaka Dwarf Magnolia, Cempaka Telur

22. Dwarf Magnolia, Cempaka Telur

23. Magnoliaceae, Michelia alba, White Champak

24. Barringtonia asiatica

25. Adenium (Adeniumobesum) Thunbergiagrandiflora Alba, White Bengal Clock vine  Water Lily

26. Bali Lollipop Plant or Golden Shrimp Plant (Pacystachys lutea)

27. Heliconia pendula

28. Frangipani (Bunga jepun) is a holy flower used in Hindu’s rituals and offerings (white is believed as a holy color in Bali, yellow is believed as wisdom color and the aroma of this flower purifying the one who smell it)

29. Crocodile or Satin wood Zanthoxylum rhetsa Crocodile wood

30. Crocodile wood

31. Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum. Cloves are often used in Asian, African, and Middle Eastern cooking in adding flavor to meats, curries, and meat marinades Drying cloves in the sunlight

32. Drying cloves in the sunlight

33. Drying cloves in the sunlight

34. The spice is used in a type of cigarette called kretek in Indonesia. Kreteks have been smoked throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. In 2009, clove cigarettes (as well as fruit and candy flavored cigarettes) were outlawed in the US. Cigarettes containing clove are now classified as Cigars when sold in the US. Clove also works as an ant repellant Cloves are used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, and western herbalism and dentistry as an anodyne (painkiller) for dental emergencies. Cloves are used as a carminative, to increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach and to improve peristalsis. Cloves are also said to be a natural anthelmintic Cloves flowers

35. Cloves flowers

36. Cloves flowers

37. Drying cloves in the sunlight

38. Coconuts

39. Mimosa pudica

40. Mimosa pudica

41. Ananas

42. Snake fruit (salak)

43. Snake fruit (salak)

44. Snake fruit (salak)

45. Snake fruit (salak)

46. Coffee flowers

47. Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota )

48. Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota ) is a long-lived, evergreen tree native to southern Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. An example natural occurrence is in coastal Yucatán in the Petenes mangroves ecoregion, where it is a subdominant plant species. It was introduced to the Philippines during Spanish colonization. It is grown in huge quantities in India, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh

49. Papaya tree

50. Originally from southern Mexico (particularly Chiapas and Veracruz), and Central America, the papaya is now cultivated in most tropical countries. Papaya