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Exciting Hot Air Balloon Festival in Pampanga

HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL

The Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta is an annual event that occurs between January and February at the Omni Aviation Complex in Clark Field, Angeles City, Pampanga. It features multicolored hot air balloons with more than a hundred balloon pilots from around the world. This three to four day hot air balloon event is the biggest aviation sports event in the Philippines.

The festival also features a number of events in skydiving, flag jumps, micro light and rocketry demonstrations, small plane fly-bys and fly-ins, remote-control airplane and helicopter flying exhibitions, freestyle aerobatics, precision maneuvers, light airplane balloon bursting, ultra-light flying formation and bomb dropping, kite-making and choreographed kite-flying, hi-start launch gliding, pylon racing, banner towing, aero-modeling symposium and races between ultra lights and motorcycles. An estimated 60,000 visitors locally and from around the world come in to see this event. Read More: wikipedia.org

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The Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta is an annual event that occurs between January and February at the Omni Aviation Complex in Clark Freeport Zone, Angeles City, Pampanga. It features multicolored hot air balloons with more than a hundred balloon pilots from around the world. This three- to four-day hot air balloon event is the biggest aviation sports event in the Philippines.

The festival also features a number of events in skydiving, flag jumps, micro light and rocketry demonstrations, small plane fly-bys and fly-ins, remote-control airplane and helicopter flying exhibitions, freestyle aerobatics, precision maneuvers, light airplane balloon bursting, ultra-light flying formation and bomb dropping, kite-making and choreographed kite-flying, hi-start launch gliding, pylon racing, banner towing, aero-modeling symposium and races between ultra lights and motorcycles. An estimated 60,000 visitors locally and from around the world come in to see this event. Read More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_International_Hot_Air_Balloon_Fiesta

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The Philippines International Balloon Festival was a four-day fun-packed event organized by the newly formed Pilipinas International Balloon Festival, Inc. (PIBF) in cooperation with the Arts, Culture and Tourism Office of Pampanga (ACTO) and the Provincial Government of Pampanga.

This event started in 1994, three years after the whole province of Pampanga was devastated by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, when then Tourism Secretary Mina Gabor along with few other foreign hot-air balloon enthusiasts thought of some ways to jumpstart the local tourism industry and most of all, to help bring back the “colors” for the province of Pampanga. The Philippine International Hot-Air Balloon Festival (PIHABF) was born and 18 years later, it has become the biggest aviation sports event in the Philippines attracting hordes of local and foreign participants and spectators every year. Read More: http://www.thecruisenursediary.com/2014/06/the-2014-hot-air-balloon-festival-lubao.html