Philippine International Friendship Balloon Festival 2014
Dates: April 10-13, 2014
Venue: PAF Hangar, Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga
Presented by: Department of Tourism, Clark Development Corporation, Clark International Airport Corporation and PAF Air Force City (600th Air Base Wing)
Statement from the Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (PIHABF) Organizing Committee
MANILA, Philippines – The organizers of the longest running balloon event in Asia – the Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (PIHABF): “A Weekend of Everything that Flies,” maintains its decision not to hold the 19th PIHABF this year, but instead, prepare for a bigger event scheduled for February 12-15, 2015.
The historic town of Daraga in Albay once again set to hold its month-long Cagsawa Festival to mark the 200th anniversary of the February 1814 cataclysmic Mayon Volcano eruption that buried underground an entire community and its imposing baroque church built by Franciscan priests in 1724, leaving above ground only its belfry.