Pupunta tayo sa tuktok basta ligtas ang landas.

Pupunta means will go or is going to go. It is the contemplated/future-like form of the verb.

A useful comparison:

• pumunta = went
• pupunta = will go

So Pupunta tayo means We will go.

Filipino has two words for we:

• tayo = we, including the person being spoken to
• kami = we, excluding the person being spoken to

So Pupunta tayo means the speaker is including the listener: We’re going.

Sa is a very common marker for location or direction. Depending on context, it can mean in, on, at, or to.

Here, because the verb involves movement (pupunta), sa tuktok means to the top.

• tuktok = top, summit, peak

So pupunta tayo sa tuktok = we will go to the top.

Here, basta means as long as, provided that, or if in a conditional sense.

So:

• basta ligtas ang landas = as long as the path is safe

In other sentences, basta can have other shades of meaning, but in this one it introduces a condition.

Both are correct.

Filipino often uses a predicate-first order, especially in everyday speech. So:

• ligtas ang landas = the path is safe
• ang landas ay ligtas = also the path is safe

The version in your sentence sounds natural and conversational. The ay version can sound a bit more formal or emphatic.

In Filipino, a present-tense to be verb is often omitted.

So instead of saying something like the path is safe with a separate word for is, Filipino simply says:

• ligtas ang landas

Literally, it looks like safe the path, but the natural meaning is the path is safe.

Ang is not exactly the same as English the, even though it is often translated that way.

In this sentence, ang marks landas as the topic/subject-like part of the sentence:

• ligtas = the predicate
• ang landas = the thing being described

So ang landas is best understood as the path here, but ang is doing grammatical work, not just acting like an English article.

Because ligtas and ang landas are not forming one noun phrase.

Here, ligtas is the predicate, and ang landas is the topic:

• ligtas ang landas = the path is safe

If you wanted safe path as a single phrase, you would use a linker:

• ligtas na landas = safe path

So the sentence is not describing a noun phrase like a safe path. It is making a full statement: the path is safe.

Yes. That version is also correct.

• Pupunta tayo sa tuktok basta ligtas ang landas.
• Basta ligtas ang landas, pupunta tayo sa tuktok.

Both mean essentially the same thing. The difference is just emphasis:

• putting basta ligtas ang landas first highlights the condition first
• putting pupunta tayo sa tuktok first highlights the action first

Landas generally means path, trail, or route. It can be literal or sometimes figurative.

In this sentence, it most naturally suggests a path or trail leading upward, especially because of sa tuktok.

Compared with daan:

• daan is a more general word for road, way, or route
• landas can sound more like a path or trail, and sometimes a bit more literary

So ligtas ang landas works very naturally for the path is safe.