The night buses from Banaue to Manila appealed to neither of us, so we took the daytime option of going to San Jose then changing there. The ticketing system here is interesting - the basic ticket consists of several columns containing the digits 0-9, with groups of columns variously indicating the embarkation point, destination, bus number, and price. The conductor, using a punch that's generally kept in a hip-mounted holster, then punches out holes in the appropriate boxes depending on the details of your journey. Amusingly, there's also a box containing "Thank you", which gets punched too. The journey took us down from the mountains and into the hot lowlands again, though the AC on the bus to Manila was cold enough to mean that my glasses steamed up when we got out at our destination.
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