Oktoberfest in Munich

The Oktoberfest festival is a German beer festival dating back two hundred years to the wedding of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria in 1810. Due to the passing of time and perhaps the amount of beer consumed only 177 oktoberfests have been recorded up to the year 2010. The festival usually happens in the last week of September and the first week of October.

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There are numerous features that make Munichs Oktoberfest stand out among other similar beer festivals, the amusements, the music, the variety of beers. Even the crowd make it special with over 8 million beer guzzlers descending on the festival and its beer tents.

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All types of people attend from the beer chugging student, to people with a family and then there is those sophiscated stein beer connoisseurs. Second only to the carnival in Brasil this beer festival is the biggest festival in the world.

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