GOLD PROCESSING
Read moreOn the way to Mount Diwata, it's worth stopping off at Gold Processing. The gold is processed into jewelry for sale on the San Francisco market at reasonable prices. Around a hundred bags of stones arrive every day to extract the gold. The stone is crushed and then mixed with water. It takes six hours before the mercury is visible. the mercury contains 30% gold, which is transported to the refinery and then to San Francisco to the Davao Central Bank.
SARAO MOTORS
Read moreFormerly a manufacturing plant for the famous Jeepneys, the number one public transport in the Philippines. Sarao converted the American GIs' Jeeps left behind after the war and became the largest Jeepney factory in the country. Even though production is over today, the factory has become a repair shop, open to visitors and artists continue to shape the bodies into works of art. For the anecdote, Jeepney would come from jeep-knee because when you are in a Jeepney, yourknees always touch those of the neighbors.
PORT DE PÊCHE
Read moreEvery morning in Sarangani Bay, fishermen unload their goods. Some have just spent weeks at the edge of Indonesian waters. They carry tuna and other spectacularly large fish on their shoulders. The best are exported to Japan for the famous sashimi. The market's traders are bustling with activity. an average of 300 tons of fish are landed every day. Over 20,000 people work in what is one of the world's largest tuna fishing ports.