Kabankalan Backyard Fruit Trees
Description
Backyard mango, guava, and banana trees in rural barangays. In Kabankalan, the main city of the southern interior, a hub for the whole southwest. Backyard and smallholder fruit rather than commercial orchards — mango, guava, santol, duhat, rambutan, calamansi depending on the month. What’s piled at roadside stalls at any given time is what’s actually ripe nearby, which is the plainest way to read the season.
Tips
The supply hub for the whole southwest — if you"re travelling the western corridor, this is the one market worth timing your day around. The eatery zone around the market is where to eat, not the highway strip.
Stops
Western Coastal Food Chain
How to get there
On the main southern highway; Ceres buses between Bacolod and the south all stop here.
Best Times
Early morning — markets, landings and roadside stalls all run hardest before 8am.