Thursday, February 12, 2009

2009 Clark, Philippines Hot Air Balloon Festival

Hot Air Balloon Festival over the Valentine's Day weekend? Ooh.. must be romantic?
Well, it is one of the biggest event in Clark and a must go for the locals, since I have nothing to do might as well I head towards Clark to check it out.

The weather was exceptionally beautiful and since it was the first day, there wasn't a big crowd.

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Prior to the Hot Air Balloon fly-in there were other exhibitions like the kite flying and the paragliding events.

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Unfortunately due to the strong wind, only a few balloons were on air, most of them didn't fly because it was too dangerous, 2 of them had a minor crash landing after being on air for 5 minutes. We had to wait 45 minutes from the scheduled time and by then it was already too dark to capture any nice shots.  This is the only nice shot I got and behind the hot air balloon is Mount Pinatubo.

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