PHILIPPINE HOTAIR BALLOON FESTIVAL 2016

It’s our first travel for the year, and our first time to try “package tour” (courtesy of Hangsaya Travel and Tours) 😊

Hangsaya Travel and Tours (https://m.facebook.com/Hangsayaphilippines) – P1,950 per person
Inclusions:
●Car transfer
●Regular ticket to Hot Air Balloon Festival
●Entrance ticket to Zoobic Safari or Ocean Adventure
●Side trip to Subic light house and Dutyfree

We booked February 14 tour.
We left Mcdo Mindanao Ave (starting point) at 2:30 A.M. and arrived at Pampanga at around 3:45 A.M. with our driver/coordinator Carlo. We were given until 8:00 A.M. to enjoy the event.

(This will a bit sound like a “complain” but I hope the management of the event will be able to read this so that they can improve the system the following years)

We were surprised with the more-than-5-minute-walk-long line! We never expected that the line for entrance will be that long! No marshalls to assist, no signages on where-to’s..kumbaga, “sariling sikap”. More than 5 people approached us asking the lines for those with ticket, where to buy ticket, etc. It took us 2 hours in the line 😑
-end of rant- AHAHAHAHA! 😂

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At the area, there are around 50 concessionaires (food, souvenirs etc) BUT, better if you bring your own food – (long lines in every booth), and several portalets provided for male and female.

There’s an Airforce area where you can take a picture holding firearms, guns (wasn’t able to take photos); and several types of aircrafts were also displayed.
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Aside from the main event, which is the hot air balloon show, there are also paragliders joining the balloons up in the sky ⛅

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Yay! Here are the hot air balloons ready to flyyyy 😀
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Wondering how hot air balloon works?
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And these are the beautiful hot air balloon in the sky.. so cute!
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Next stop is our Zoobic Safari adventure on my next post 🐏🐄🐂🐃🐮🐍🐒

Thank you for reading!

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