Canberra Balloon Spectacular is Australia’s longest-running hot air ballooning festival, celebrating the awe-inspiring beauty of balloons in flight. In 2025 the event has been elevated and is again its own distinct festival, offering a magical experience for all attendees. For 9 spectacular days in March, vibrant hot air balloons will fill the skies over the nation’s capital, creating ...

Melbourne is a lovely city, always; but when you are able to see it at sunrise from the vantage point of a hot air balloon flight you will experience it in its full splendour. The Yarra River meandering through the city, past the Australian Open Tennis Centre, the massive MCG, the light reflecting on its modern buildings, the many parks and gardens so beautifully kept…Melbourne proves time ...

On 12 March Canberra Balloon Spectacular @Enlighten Festival lifts off. Held over 9 days, over 25 balloons from around Australia and overseas combine making the Canberra skyline a flurry of colour, sound and movement and a spectacle to remember. The balloons launch each morning from Patrick White Lawns, with balloon inflation from 6.15 am and launch around 7am, weather permitting. For those who ...

See the magic and spectacle as over 20 hot air balloons take to the skies each morning and late afternoon in Canowindra every April, over a nine day period at the Canowindra Balloon Challenge. The highlight is the Balloon Glow and night markets where you will enjoy local produce, wine, crafts and entertainment culminating in a display as the balloons light up synchronised to music. Whilst there ...

See the magic and spectacle as over 20 hot air balloons take to the skies each morning and late afternoon in Canowindra every April, over a nine day period at the Canowindra Balloon Challenge. The highlight is the Balloon Glow and night markets where you will enjoy local produce, wine, crafts and entertainment culminating in a display as the balloons light up synchronised to music. Whilst there ...

The Canberra Balloon Spectacular is considered to be one of the best and longest running hot air ballooning events in the world. Held over nine days, pilots begin laying out and inflating their balloons on the lawns of Old Parliament House from 6.15am each day before ascending into the sky and creating an exhilarating back drop to our national attractions. ...

WE 'RE BACK! SATURDAY 2nd - SATURDAY 9th SEPTEMBER 2017 Following the enormous success of the Australian National Ballooning Championships held in Northam in 2015, the ABF has again awarded the Event to Northam for 2017; so once again, the Northam Aero Club will be delighted to WELCOME visiting balloon crews and pilots from interstate and overseas; as well as members of the public ...

See the magic and spectacle as over 20 hot air balloons take to the skies each morning and late afternoon in Canowindra every April, over a five day period at the Canowindra Balloon Challenge. The highlight is the Balloon Glow and night markets where you will enjoy local produce, wine, crafts and entertainment culminating in a display as the balloons light up synchronised to music. Whilst there ...

The Canberra Balloon Spectacular is considered to be one of the best and longest running hot air ballooning events in the world. Held over nine days, pilots begin laying out and inflating their balloons on the lawns of Old Parliament House from 6.15am each day before ascending into the sky and creating an exhilarating back drop to our national attractions. The 2017 Canberra Balloon Spectacular ...

About the Canberra Balloon Spectacular The Canberra Balloon Spectacular is considered to be one of the best and longest running hot air ballooning events in the world. Held over nine days, pilots begin laying out and inflating their balloons on the lawns of Old Parliament House from 6.15am each day before ascending into the sky and creating an exhilarating back drop to our national ...

The Australian National Balloon Championships in 2015 were granted by the Australian Balloon Federation to Northam Western Australia. The Nationals were previously held in Northam in 1981 and 1984, both being successful Events, with the latter of these two introducing the present Championship format. The Event was organized by the Northam Aero Club in both cases. The 2015 Championships are again ...