From Manila a limited number of bus companies make the eight-hour trip north. The best are Philippine Rabbit, Partas Lines or Times Transit (about P300). You can also get buses from San Fernando and Baguio. From Banaue and Bontoc there are no direct buses, so you will have to backtrack to Baguio. Victory Liner goes north from Manila to Laoag, but you can ask the driver to let you get off on the outskirts of Vigan and then take a short ten-peso tricycle ride into town. In Vigan, the Partas and Times Transit terminals are both in Quezon Avenue. The Philippine Rabbit terminal is in General Luna Street, one of the town's major east-west thoroughfares. From here a ten-minute walk north along Governor A Reyes Street will take you to Plaza P Burgos and the tourist information office (Mon-Sat 8am-5pm; tel 077/732 5705), housed in the Leona Florentina Building, near Café Leona. There are a number of banks in Florentino Street and there's a post office with poste restante at the junction of Gov. A Reyes and Bonifacio streets. Also on Gov. A Reyes Street is Powernet, where you can send and receive emails for P50 an hour. Vigan's main hospital is the Gabriela Silang General Hospital (tel 077/722 2722) on Quirino Boulevard.