Today is Day 1 of the famous Munich Oktoberfest. I also did wonder why is it called the Octoberfest when it has 13 days in Sept and only 3 days in October? I need to do the search on the web and find out the history behind that. Anyway I did visit this place called Theresienwiese here in Munich where the fest happens. As expected, it was a pretty sight. I feel when you are a place different from ours, the best way to get the cultural ethos of the place is through such festivals. Octoberfest brings out the traditional Bavarian (Bavaria is the state where Munich is) costumes and it was quite an interesting sight.
This festival is by the way nothing more than a beer party (I like to use the phase 'drunken revelry') where the beer landlords of Munich (there are about 600 breweries in Bavaria) come in complete costumes on their horses. They set up these huge tents where benches and tables are the only seats available. Imagine these huge tents where in each of them maybe 3000-4000 people are sitting and drinking beer also shouting, singing, dancing. It is some sort of a unique experience.
The digital camera is such a cool thing. I did manage to click quite a number of pictures but need to upload it to the web. Will do it....
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