Oktoberfest

Munich’s Oktoberfest is an annual 16 day long festival that takes place during late September to early October.  It is considered to be the world’s largest party and attracts 6 million revelers each year.  Most of the visitors are from Germany, but that still leaves nearly 1 million foreigners each year.

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The primary point of the festival is to have a communal celebration involving lots of beer and food.  Enormous beer hall tents are set up over a 42 hectare area.  Some of these tents hold up to 10,000 people.  People are packed at communal tables and drink one litre mugs of beer and eat sausages. 

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Another part of the attraction of Oktoberfest is the atmosphere.   The ledhosen-attired Bavarian band will play on and you revel with your newfound friends in a raucous and joyous atmosphere.