Image courtesy Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta

The Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (PIHABF) is now in its 15th year at Clark Field, Pampanga. The Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta is simply biggest festival celebrating things airborne in the Philippines and brings the hottest balloons and flying machines together for four days of fun and spectacle.

Hot-air balloons lift off after 6.00am and return in the afternoon around 4.00pm'ish. In between the hot-air balloon take-off and return there are flying displays by microlight/ultralight airplanes, skydivers, paragliders, motorised paragliders and possibly, this year for the first time, glider sai

Photo courtesy Martyn Willes

UPDATED 23/8/2009

NOT YET OPEN! Follow this link to see images of the current status of the Wakeboarding Davao Deca Wakeboard Park.

ORIGINAL TEXT: Opening a the end of July is a new wakeboarding park in Davao City. The Deco Wakeboarding Park is the largest wakeboarding park in South East Asia, with reportedly seven hectares of wakeboarding lake.

Located in Barangay Mintal, Davao City, the Deca Wakeboarding Park is the latest project of Chris Tan's Xtreme Wake Inc. Chris Tan and Sherilyn Reyes have been coincidentally promoting the sport of wakeboarding for some time now and their ability to attract sufficient investment for this wakeboarding park in Davao City (and a similar facility in Clark / Angeles City, Pampanga) indicates a resilient tourist b

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The next leg of the National Drag Racing Championship will be held at Clark Field, Angeles City, Pampanga, on 22nd August. The exact location is behind the Clark Expo on the North side of the former Clark Air Force Base. This particular race session should determine the Philippine National Drag Racing Champion for 2009.

For such a high-octane motor sport it is interesting that a relatively low-octane product, San Mig Coffee, sponsors National Drag Racing Championship. But sponsor it they do, along side (more appropriately) Yokoham

Photo by Bernadette Villaluz

Flying in the Philippines by microlight / ultralight aircraft is the latest adventure sport we have experienced in Angeles City, Pampanga; Cebu Pacific Air may offer Go-Lite fares but a microlight / ultralight experience puts you in touch with Mother Nature in a way that only a true adventure sport can do.

One sunny morning last week I took that chance to drop by the Woodland Airpark, home of the Angeles City Flying Club, about ten minutes off the North Luzon Expressway, near Angeles City. Arriving at the Angeles City Flying Club I discovered three hangers st

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Philippine International Cricket Sixes 2009, will be held at the Parade Ground, Clark Field, Angeles City, Pampanga, on 20th - 22nd February.

The Philippine International Cricket Sixes at Clark Field marks the second time this annual celebration of international cricket comes to the Philippines. Teams will arrive from almost all cricket playing nations to Clark Field and Angeles City, to enjoy a weekend of gentlemanly sports. The sound of leather on willow will echo around historic Fort Stotsenburg to much applause, the passion for victory between the wickets will be run

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The all new London Pub is now open for business on Clark Field, Pampanga, across the street from the Grill Room, just off the Parade Ground near the CDC offices.

Three years in dreaming, designing and making, the London Pub is one of the few places in Clark where you can have a civilised beer in a tropical destination with some wholesome pub grub and the chance of chatting to the occasional authentic Englishmen in Asia.

The London Pub is the latest creation of Chef Philip from the Grill Room, to answer the need for a place to congregate on-base when you don't know who else is around, and a place for social and network