Banaue Transportation

-There are piera type jeepneys waiting at Autobus Terminal - Banaue when you arrived at 7 or 7:30am.
-There are jeepneys bound for Batad, Bontoc and Sagada.
-You can request for the driver to bring you to a restaurant in Banaue to have breakfast first before heading to Sagada.
-Going to Sagada from the bus station is at P250 / head (2007). Stop-overs at Banaue view points, eating places and in Bontoc (let the driver knows you want to make a stop in Bontoc).
-We left Autobus Banaue bus terminal at 8 AM - ate breakfast and stopped at view points and arrived Sagada at 2PM.

-Autobus in Espana, Manila (5 min walk from UST / P. Noval St.)
-Year 2007, less than Php400 per pax / one way (airconditioned bus).
-One bus, one schedule everyday and depart time is at 10 PM. Will arrive Banaue the next day at 7AM.
-Two stop overs to eat and use the toilet. One in Bulacan and last in Nueva Vizcaya.
-Has discounted rate for students (bring your school ID's).
-Autobus also has route from Banaue to Manila every 8AM (at Autobus terminal in Banaue).

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Florida has Deluxe buses with comfort rooms and spacious seats.
Location: Earnshaw cor. Extremadora St. in Sampaloc, Manila (near intersection of Espana and Lacson Ave.)

Ticket Price: P450
Tickets can be reserved 2 days prior by phone, and must be claimed at least an hour before departure time. If you don't claim your ticket one hour before, you might have to wait the next day to go to Banaue (because the Autobus leaves at 10pm and travelers I met who took this bus said it's crappy).

Schedule: 10:45 pm everyday via Solano, Nueva Vizcaya.

You better choose Manila airport it would be easier for you. Autobus liner is an hour away from the airport, the bus leaves manila to Banaue every 10pm daily.
...It is safe to travel alone, get a guide when u arrive there when u cant find some group.

Updated : 03-Nov-09

Airconditioned buses depart from Manila every night. Departure times around 10:30-10:45PM and arrives in Banaue around 6-7AM the next day. There are no advance reservations so you get seats as you pay. Note that these buses can be freezingly cold *cough* Autobus *cough* so bring a jacket (you can complain to no avail).

*Autobus Transport (10:45PM daily)
NEW ADDRESS: 1445 St. Loyola cor. F. Coyco Sts, Sampaloc, Manila
Tel: +63-2-4934111

*Florida Transport (regular 9:10PM / deluxe 10:45PM daily)
Earnshaw Sr cor. Loyola, Espana, Manila
Tel: +63-2-7315358

Terminals for Florida and Autobus are now on the same side and a block apart from each other. Five minutes walk from main road Espana. Florida terminal is closer to Lacson St while Autobus is closer to UST main entrance. The difference for the regular and deluxe is the toilet inside as far as I know. Oh and the hot pink curtains.

PEAK SEASON: Easter Week, November 1-2, Dec 20-Jan6
Locals going home to Ifugao take as early as 2 weeks to buy their tickets during these dates. Florida still refuses to add trips during the peak season so that's it, one or two a day. Autobus adds on 2-3 more trips especially leading up to the main holidays (Holy Thu, All Saint's Day, Christmas, New Year) but again these seats get filled up easily.

CLARK - BANAUE
There are no buses directly going to Banaue from Clark Airport in Pampanga. Best option is to backtrack to Manila and get the night bus. Or if you are not on a rush and looking to head to Sagada you can go to Baguio first. Buses heading for Baguio leaves every 30 minutes from the Dau terminal which is just a few minutes away from Clark airport. There are buses from Baguio heading for Sagada or Banaue.

From Baguio:
There are non-aircon buses that goes direct to Banaue. Travel time is 8 hours. Usual departure times are 7PM everyday. You can find them usually waiting for passengers near Rizal Park.

From Sagada:
1)Take a jeepney to Bontoc. Find the jeepney terminal going to Banaue. Last trip is 12:30-ish to 1PM. Travel Time : 3-4 hours.

2)Another option is to wait for those non-aircon buses going to Tabuk or Quirino. They stop in Banaue for those mandatory stopovers.

3) Some people hire a jeepney from Banaue to take them straight to Sagada and back. If you are lucky they might be in the mood to accommodate an additional passenger or two. Of course there's a chance you might have to split up the fare and that could be more expensive than commuting.

Reminder: If you are coming from Sagada/Bontoc and leaving for Manila via Banaue the same day, take the morning commute to Banaue. The roads are rough enough to warrant a vehicle breakdown when you least expect it.

Sharing with you contact details of reliable bus lines you can take going to and from Banaue Rice Terraces.

Florida Bus Line (+632 743 3809) - recommended, comfortable coach seats, but has limited seating capacity so you should buy your ticket ahead of time, if you already know when you're leaving Banaue by the time you arrive, it's best to buy a ticket as soon as you get off the bus before checking in to your hotel.

Banaue Autobus - (+632 735 8096)

for normal vehicles, the easiest route from ilocos sur is to take the urdaneta-san jose nueva ecija crossing then continue on bagabag then up to Banawe.

If you are a bit from the northern part of Ilocos sur, you can go up to laoag, patatapat, tuguegarao. santiago then bagabag and then on to ifugao.

A new route which is shorter, is go up to bagiuo, then take the abmbuklao road down to aritao nueva vizcaya, then bagabag and then ifugao. GMA recently inaugurated this road, but I dont know its condition now. Its a scenic route with pine forests and a junction which leads to Mount Pulag. The road from the border of nueva vizcaya down was already cemented 3 years ago.

Or from bagio take the halsema highway as mentioned previously to Bontoc and Banawe.

If you are near Tagudin, and you have a 4x4 vehicle, take the tagudin-cervantes bontoc road and then on to Banawe. The most direct route, but the most challenging and you have to do 1 river crossing, or if the abra river is high, go a bit southerly to abatan first before going to Bontoc from cervantes.

Its about 7- 8hrs hrs trip from San Fernando La Union for all the routes except for the one going up north via Tuguegarao.

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By day to Banaue from Manila:

Bus Terminal:
Victory Liner Kamias Station On EDSA
1 km north of Cubao Terminal

Deluxe AC bus leaves at 7:00 am
Cost: 650.00 PHP to Solano

It takes about 7 Hrs to get to Solano,
let the conductor know that you want
to go to Banaue .
They will let you off to catch the Jeepney
to Lagawe this will take about 1 hr and
67 PHP
in Lagawe you will transfer to another
Jeepney to Banaue which will take
another 1 hr and 35 PHP

We went on to the UHAJ Native Village
Inn (Hapao Rice Terraces) by trike which
took 40 min on a rainy day and it cost
between 130 and 150 PHP (negotiable).
From the Inn you have a good view of the
Hapao Rice Terraces.

To get back to Manila in reverse order.
In Solano catch any bus that goes to
Manila.