KMS Philippines, now CODA Lines Corporation, will open a Manila - Banaue bus route via Bontoc starting April 1, 2015.

Herewith is the information on bus fares/rates, trip schedules (departure and arrival) for this route that was formerly served by another bus company.

UPDATED: January 2016

CODA Lines (photos taken from Coda Line Facebook page)




For reservations and inquiries you may call the following numbers
telephone numbers: 09275592197; 09295213229

Manila to Sagada Bus Fare: PhP720.00 (as of November 12, 2015)

Trip Schedules:
Quezon City to Sagada: 9pm daily (one trip only)
Sadaga to Quezon City: 3pm daily (one trip only)
Travel time: 10 hours


Coda Lines Bus Terminal:
277 E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenur, Cathedral Heights, Quezon City

*How to get to theire bus station:
From MRT Cubao, ride a jeepney to Quiapo and alight in front of Shakey's along E- Rodriguez. (the Cubao jeepney from Quiapo
will also pass there)
Enter main gate of Trinity University of Asia then go straight until the corner lot. It is the former terminal of Cable Tours.

Contact Number is posted on the picture below, just call the telephone number for any inquiries or possible ticket reservations.

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For weeks now, Tutubi has been receiving queries from friends going to Sagada for the summer on where's the terminal of Cable Tours buses going to Sagada. Though he has yet to personally take the Cable Tours bus, he's been to Cable Tours bus terminal before during his Sagada trip with Ironwulf (he also has Cable Tours business card that he used to contact them for information posted here)

UPDATE February 10, 2014: Mt. Province Cable Tours franchise was sold to GV FLorida for the routes Manila to Bontoc and Manila to Sagada. One of the buses figured figured in an accident on February 7, 2014 which killed about 16 people including Arvin "Tado" Jimenez (of unTV Strangebrew TV show and 99.5 RT radio show Brewrats with Angel Rivero and Ramon Bautista).



For other people looking for the same information on Cable Tours, Tutubi was able to take a drive-by photo of the unassuming terminal of cable tours on E. Rodriguez St in Quezon City a few months ago.

the not so noticeable bus terminal of Cable Tours in Quezon City near St. Lukes Hospital. Notice the partially hidden sign

Cable Tours Contact Number (Manila): +63.929.819.4688
Cable Tours Contact Number (Bontoc): +63.918.521.6790
Cable Tours Telephone Number (Sagada: +63.928.626.7293
Telephone Number (landline): +63.74.606.8235

Cable Tours Trip Schedules:

Manila to Bontoc: daily trips at 1230HRS
Bontoc to Manila: daily trips at 1500HRS

Cable tours bus station address:
E. Rodriguez St., Quezon City

Bus Fare to Sagada: PhP650.00

How to get to Cable Tours bus terminal:

From Manila, just take jeepneys bound for Cubao and drop off in front of the terminal (fronting Shakeys on E. Rodriguez)

From MRT Araneta-Cubao station or LRT 2 Cubao Station, twalk towards Aurora Blvd then board a jeepney bound for Manila.

Note: Cable Tours buses don't directly take you to Sagada but only to Bontoc. You need to take another 45-minute jeepney ride to Sagada (fare: P40.00) to get there.

No information on Cable tours official website, safety records and accidents (if there are), chartered bus rates as of posting time.

There's another bus company serving the manila to Bontoc route,
Kasilen Transport with contact numbers: +639178629574; +639163603483
also with Manila to Bontoc daily trips at 9pm and Bontoc to Manila return trips at 4pm.

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While in Sagada, we passed by villages and witnessed how common folks of Sagada still practice age-old customs hanging out in dap-ay, while young men massage their feet of the elders with two sticks traditionally known as dagdagay, showcase etag (otherwise known as Igorot ham) and pinikpikan that can make PETA denounce their practice.

Law and order in Sagada is still maintained by elders in the community and put on trial in a dap-ay and the guilty one made to pay damages in "4x4" (which we found out later refers to gin in four-cornered bottles known in anywhere else as "cuatro cantos")


Bontoc Museum, Bontoc (capital town of Mountain Province)
villages in Bontoc are called ato
Bul-ul



St Rita Cathedral, Bontoc

Bontoc is can be reached directly by bus from Manila and is the penultimate stop of our "amazing race" in the Cordilleras. We made a quick stop in Banaue before boarding our bus back to Manila

How to get to Bontoc, Mountain Province:

Buses going to Banaue, Ifugao. In Banaue, transfer to a jeepney going to Bontoc. Travel time is about 2 hours from Banaue.

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Some sort of slightly unplanned trip, or so it was, that we had to buy our tickets at Victory Liner in Cubao and for the Baguio-bound bus rather than the faster and shorter route via Banaue Autobus but we made it since it's a season where many tourists flock to Sagada.

I was afterall travelling with Ferdz, the man behind Ironwulf.com and co-moderator of Explore Philippines Yahoogroups-- the prolific blogger, backpacker and photographer that he is!

Our trip to Baguio was a breeze arrived early in the morning when the cold foggy air of the city of pines welcomed us. We proceeded to the Dangwa bus terminal ( the namesake of the strip in Manila famous for dirt cheap flowers) to catch our connecting flight to Sagada via Lizardo Trans

The bus ride took us around 7 hours of dusty, unpaved and tortuous road on Halsema Highway where every turn of the long and winding road made us hang on to dear life wishing we won't fall down the valley below---after all Halsema Highway claims to have the highest point of the Philippine highway system.

Arriving in Sagada 7 hours later and still breathing, we jumped out of the the non-airconditioned bus to inhale my first lung-full of fresh Sagada air-- the tutubi finally flapped his wings in Sagada!

We checked-in at Sagada Guest House where we only shelled out P150 per night with communal toilets typical of backpacker inns and after eating we went immediately to explore the sights. ‘Twas my first time in Sagada, a wish come true, and it was Ferdz’s second or maybe third.



We went to usual Sagada attractions with Ferdz as my able guide: Echo Valley, Big Falls, Kiltepan, Lake Danum (a disappointment), a tour of its various villages, hanging coffins and the virtually unknown Festival of Lights.

the newly-paved Sagada road with Sagada Weavers in view
echo valley senti mode
Ironwulf tinkering with his shutters
at Lumiang cave

for whom the old bell tolled?
Ironwulf admiring view of Kiltepan
Bomod-ok: the big falls
hanging coffins of Echo valley
The Skull, the one we found in Echo Valley where we also met Manny, another co-moderator of Explore Philippines yahoogroups. Ferdz even re-arranged the skull to have a better "pose" ;)





the tilapia- a prized find high up in the mountains



Travel Information:

Sights to see: Hanging Coffins, Bomod-ok Falls, Sumaguing Cave, Lumiang Cave, Kiltepan Rice Terraces, Lake Danum, Echo Valley,

Where to stay:

You can just drop in and inquire once you get there. You need reservations though on peak days. The hospital opens its doors to people without a place to stay.

How to get to Sagada:

Sagada can be reached in two ways: commute via Baguio for a 6 hour bus trip of Lizardo Trans at Dangwa Terminal passing through Halsema Highway; and via Banaue after a two hour jeepney ride.


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A unique Sagadan tradition, aptly called the Festival of Lights, where locals honor their dead on the eve of All Saint's Day (should it really be on All Souls Day?) but instead of burning candles, they set on fire bundles of pinewood. It's simple explanation-- candles weren't available to the highlanders so they thought up of something to make up for it.





Before the ceremonial burning of pinewood, a mass, Episcopalian that is, is celebrated, then all names of the community's departed would be named short of a roll call; I wonder how it would look like if one of those called say "present" :)











From afar, it looked like a smoldering forest!

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