How to Get to Jarabacoa by Bus: La Vega Timetable

Jarabacoa by bus in five facts

1. Caribe Tours has 8 direct departures from Santo Domingo to Jarabacoa, from 07:00 to 18:00, each taking 2 h 30.
2. From La Vega to Jarabacoa there are 8 daily departures, from 08:45 to 19:45, each taking 45 minutes.
3. From Jarabacoa to La Vega there are also 8, from 06:00 to 18:00, each taking 40 minutes.
4. From Santo Domingo to La Vega there are 35 buses a day, from 06:00 to 20:00.
5. The trip from Santo Domingo goes in an assisted booking from 25 USD per person.

The direct bus from Santo Domingo

According to the Caribe Tours public timetable API, checked on 4 October 2026, 8 direct buses a day leave Santo Domingo for Jarabacoa: 07:00, 08:30, 09:30, 11:00, 13:30, 14:30, 16:15 and 18:00. They all take 2 and a half hours, so the first arrives at 09:30 and the last at 20:30. From Jarabacoa to Santo Domingo there are also 8: 06:00, 07:30, 10:00, 11:30, 13:00, 14:15, 17:00 and 18:00. The 07:30, 10:00, 11:30, 13:00 and 14:15 take 2 hours 25 minutes, the 06:00 and the 18:00 take 3 hours 5 minutes, and the 17:00 takes 4 hours 5 minutes. It is about 130 km. The bus leaves from a Caribe Tours terminal in Santo Domingo and arrives at the Caribe Tours terminal in Jarabacoa, which the company includes in its list of branches. The exact departure terminal goes in your confirmation, because Caribe Tours has several in the capital.

The full La Vega to Jarabacoa timetable

This is the best documented line of the trip. According to the Caribe Tours API, checked on 3 October 2026, 8 buses a day leave La Vega for Jarabacoa: 08:45, 10:15, 11:15, 12:45, 15:15, 16:15, 18:00 and 19:45. They all take 45 minutes, so the 08:45 arrives at 09:30 and the 19:45 at 20:30. It is about 20 km. In the other direction, from Jarabacoa to La Vega, there are also 8: 06:00, 07:30, 10:00, 11:30, 13:00, 14:15, 17:00 and 18:00, each taking 40 minutes. From La Vega we handle this leg from 20 USD per person.

Connecting in La Vega from Santo Domingo

From Santo Domingo to La Vega there are 35 Caribe Tours departures a day, from 06:00 to 20:00, according to the same API. Both lines use the Caribe Tours terminal in La Vega, so you change without leaving it. If you put the two timetables side by side, several buses from Santo Domingo reach La Vega exactly when one leaves for Jarabacoa: the 07:00 arrives at 08:45, the time of the first bus to Jarabacoa, and the 18:00 arrives at 19:45, the time of the last. Caribe Tours does not publish whether in those cases it is the same bus carrying on or a change, so we confirm the exact combination when you book.

From Santiago and from Punta Cana

From Santiago you also connect in La Vega. Caribe Tours has 32 departures a day from Santiago to La Vega, from 06:00 to 20:15, with trips of 50 minutes or 1 hour 15 minutes according to its API. The 07:15, for example, reaches La Vega at 08:30 and leaves time for the 08:45 to Jarabacoa. We handle Santiago to Jarabacoa, with both legs, from 25 USD per person. From Punta Cana there is no direct option: it is two buses with a change in Santo Domingo, and between them you cross the city by taxi or Uber to the Caribe Tours terminal. In total it is about 330 km and about 6 and a half hours by our estimate, from 40 USD.

Sources and how we checked

The La Vega to Jarabacoa, Santo Domingo to La Vega and Santiago to La Vega times come from the Caribe Tours public timetable API, the same one its website uses, checked on 3 October 2026. The direct bus timetable between Santo Domingo and Jarabacoa comes from that API, checked on 4 October 2026. The Jarabacoa terminal appears in the Caribe Tours list of branches, checked on 3 October. Distances and the time from Punta Cana are our estimates. Timetables can change, and the time that counts is the one on your ticket. We are an independent intermediary with no agreement with the operators, and we are not the Caribe Tours website.