Good day friends! If you like our videos and want to support our channel you may send us a SUPERTHANKS or donate to our accounts PayPal: islandlife1221 (Darlene Bumacod) Gcash: 09123132322 (Boris Kuznetsov) Thank you so much for watching! Port Babak is one of our favorite places on Samal Island. Whenever we are here, it feels like we are going on an adventure. We still can't get enough of barge rides. It's something we always look forward to when we go to the island of Mindanao. The sea is a little rough today, despite the beautiful sunny weather. Near the port, people are sewing clothes. In the Philippines you often see men doing this. We found a repair shop in one of the city malls and had our phone battery replaced. Then we decided to go to one of the most recommended places in Davao - Bankerohan Market. Locals say that the prices there are the cheapest. The market is located on the bank of the Davao River. This is the third largest river in Mindanao. Bankerohan gets its name from the word Banca, a traditional fishing boat that used to carry sand and gravel in the area. Our first stop is a busy fish market. It is very noisy here. Vendors are shouting out their products in hopes of attracting customers. We got a little lost and ended up in an unusual alley. The vendors are covered in soot from head to toe. They are selling charcoal. You can smell the smoke and black charcoal dust flying around. It feels like we are in a firehouse. In the Philippines, charcoal is mostly used for cooking. (There's no need to heat up, it's hot enough.) There are a lot of coconuts growing on tropical islands. Their shells make excellent charcoal. They say it is more environmentally friendly and burns brighter. But most importantly, you don't have to cut down trees and forests to make it. You can buy regular charcoal here as well. There are several second hand stores in Banquerohan. This is one of my favorite places. Here you can find very interesting things at cheap prices, and even new, with tags. Sometimes you can come across rare and designer items. All it takes is a lot of patience and luck. For us, it's like a game of treasure hunt. There is a department with flowers at the market. Many of the flowers that grow here are exotic to Boria. He said that if he saw them in Russia, he would think that they are not real. The local markets sell green tomatoes. Most filipinos like them better than ripe ones. Often they just reject red tomatoes. Bankerohan reminds him of an Oriental bazaar from a fairy tale. Goods are in abundance here. There are sprouts of some kind of beans and chopped vegetables in large baskets. The counters are bursting with a thousand and one chickens. But the stars of the market are the different varieties of tropical fruits. These marangs smell really good and are worth picking up. We bought some fruit and headed home. I feel bad about the heat in the hot city. Even Filipinos can't stand this heat sometimes. Finally, we got on the barge, it's much better by the water. Filipino kids find their own entertainment. These boys float on little rafts made out of refrigerator doors. They look so happy. It's nice to see that in this age of technology and cell phones, most kids in the Philippines are still playing and having fun outside. Boria and I watch them and remember our happy childhood. When we returned to Samal Island, it was low tide. Some people are looking for something edible on the exposed seabed. This man is cutting bamboo. He said he is building a fence for a local resort. From Bankerahan we brought watermelon, mangosteen, guayabano, marang, rambutan, santol and mango. Some of this fruit Boria and mama had never tasted before. We are thrilled by this abundance.