Sugarcane loading during harvest. In San Carlos. During harvest — roughly October to May — the sugar districts run on cane trucks, loading zones and mill schedules, and the whole landscape moves to it. Trucks stacked high with cane, hauling day and night, and barangays organised around mill shifts. WHAT TO DO: this is a landscape to read from the road rather than a site to visit; mills are working industrial facilities, not attractions. ACTIVITIES: the cane roads make good slow drives, particularly in the Bacolod-Silay-Victorias belt and around La Carlota. SAFETY: genuinely the main road hazard on this side of the island — overloaded cane trucks are slow, wide, shed cane onto the road, and dominate narrow highways during harvest. Give them room and don’t overtake blind.