Balinese Music . There is not any better image of a tropical paradise than that of an idyllic beach, with native huts, under swaying coconut palms. Travel brochures dare not show a picture of a tropical beach without these tall and stately palms. There is, however, much more to a coconut than its good looks.
Coconuts are the most important of all cultivated palms.
They are cultivated in more than 80 tropical countries, grown right from the beach up to 600 m elevation. Scientists are still not sure of the exact origin of these very useful plants, although they concede that coconuts originated from somewhere in the old tropics. Coconuts are very important the Balinese. Our life won t be as happy and easy without them. We require them in our rituals as well as in our daily economic lives.