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Candidasa, a black sand

beach, is a major destination

of the tourists, highly suitable

for water sports such as

swimming, snorkeling, diving.

Candidasa is one of the tourist

area that developed starting in

1983. At first the name

Candidasa is the name of a

temple, the Temple

Candidasa, located on a small

hill and was built in the 12th

century

Torch gingers (Nicolaia elatior) Heliconia Stricta Shronii

Torch gingers (Nicolaia elatior)

Heliconia Stricta Shronii

One story that became a myth

about the existence of a growing

Candidasa temple and is

believed by local people is a

statue of Goddess Hariti located

in a niche at the bottom of the

cliff of the hill. It is said that

Goddess Hariti narrated in the

beginning was a Yaksa in

Buddhism who love to eat the

flesh of children. But after getting

enlightenment teachings of

Buddhism, the goddess and then

repent and turn to protective and

loving children.Heliconia Stricta Shronii

Heliconia Rostrata

The name of Candidasa is

from the word candi and

dasa, candi mean temple

and dasa mean ten,

Goddess statue Hariti

portrayed as a goddess is

surrounded by 10 children,

as a characteristic, a loving

protector, and also as a

symbol of fertility and

prosperity.

Local people believe that the

Goddess Hariti means the

mother of many people who

can give the gift of fertility

and prosperity. Therefore a

lot of places visited and

utilized by the husband –

wife who has not been

blessed with offspring to beg

supplication by bringing

offerings dedicated to the

Goddess Hariti

In Balinese culture, a man

and a woman is considered

to be complete when they

are unite to form a family that

worship common ancestors

in the family shrine of each

Balinese household.

Family ties are consequently

the most important factor in

Balinese life; a continuous

sequence relates the

individual to his family, to his

community, and to the total

of the Balinese people. A

Balinese woman who

marries Chinese, a Muslim,

or a foreigner ceases to be a

Balinese.

A Balinese feels that hi most

important duty is to marry as

soon as he comes of age

and to raise a family to

perpetuate his line.

Golden Torch (Heliconia psittacorum)

Golden Torch (Heliconia psittacorum x Heliconia spathocircinata)

Heliconia Stricta Bucky

A bachelor is in Bali

abnormal, incomplete being

devoid of all social

significance since only

settled married men can

become the member of

banjar and village

association.

In Bali, Even the pedanda,

the high priest, must have a

son to continue his line

though it do not conform to

the ascetic abstention

favored by orthodox Hindus.

Thus, every Balinese centers

all his hopes in having

children, preferably male

children, who will look after

him in his old age, and most

important of all, sons who will

take the proper care of his

remains after he is dead,

performing the necessary

rites to liberate his soul for

reincarnation, so it will not

become an aimless

wandering ghost.

From temple relief, scripture

and folktales, they are familiar

with the fate awaits the

childless in hell, where a

woman who dies without

children is condemned to carry

a gigantic worm suckling at her

useless breast, and for the man

who fail to have a child his soul

is hung on a bamboo and the

trunk of that plant is constantly

bitten by the soul of people who

did not undergo a mesangih

(tooth filling) ritual.

A man who does not obtain

children from his wife has the

right to divorce her; or if she

dies or runs away, he remarries

as soon as possible. Often the

sterile wife will herself suggest

and even provide for a second

wife for her husband. There is

another alternative, they usually

meras (adopt) a child of

relatives.

For the Balinese people, the

placenta is also considered

a brother or sister to the

newborn and is quickly

removed and returned to the

family compound. It is then

cleaned by the father,

blessed with holy water,

wrapped in white cloth and

then buried in the grounds

under a rock. No one

outside the family will know

where it is buried to protect

the placenta from evil which

through black magic,

(believed in by the

Balinese), could then be

inflicted on the living child.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the

Candidasa area received a

large amount of investment

in tourism and a

construction boom.

To fuel the construction of

beach bungalows, new

homes and restaurants, the

offshore reef was mined for

lime to make cement and

other construction materials.

This removed the coastal

barrier that had protected

the beach which was

undermined and washed

away. Local hotel owners

constructed a series of t-

shaped groins jutting out

into the water in an attempt

to preserve the beach, with

mixed results.

Heliconia Rostrata

Torch gingers (Nicolaia elatior)

Candidasa Lotus Lagoon

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