La Carlota Sugar Mill Area

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La Carlota Sugar Mill Area

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La Carlota Sugar Mill Area
La Carlota Sugar Mill Area

Description

Sugar mill and processing zone in La Carlota — one of the key mills of the central Occidental corridor. In La Carlota, an inland mill town at the foot of Kanlaon. Muscovado is whole-cane sugar boiled down and dried with the molasses left in — brown, damp, faintly smoky, nothing like refined white. Producers here work in open pans at small scale. Buy it in blocks or loose by the kilo where it’s made; it costs more than white sugar and is worth the difference.

Tips
A mill town rather than a market town — the interest is the sugar landscape and the Kanlaon western trailheads beyond it, not the town centre itself.
Stops
Northern Sugar & Seafood Corridor
How to get there
Inland from the southern highway, roughly an hour from Bacolod.
Best Times
Early morning — markets, landings and roadside stalls all run hardest before 8am.

Location