Oktoberfest is wunderbar!

Finally I had the opportunity to go to the Oktoberfest! In case you don't know, Oktoberfest is a famous festival and fair held in Munich, Germany, although is best known as "beer festival".
It's true that beer plays an important role in this festival, where you find big tents with live music and many, many, many 1 litre glass mugs.

There's people from all over the world coming to this festival, but the bavarians (the germans born in this region) are very very proud of their city and festival.
Do you know that men and women wear their typical clothes during the festival? Even young people! It's curious to see men in leather trousers (lederhosen) and women in their typical dresses (dirndl). Day and night! (but I suppose they don't wear the same clothes everyday) eheheh

For someone like me, who likes to try the typical gastronomy from each location, it was a real festival. At the end I was saying it was the "cholesterol festival"!! eheh Roast pork (schweinsbraten), knuckle of pork (haxn) or the famous bratwurst sausages! Of course there were other things to eat like chicken, grilled fish on a stick (steckerlfisch ), potatoes, red cabbage and also the famous pretzels (bread pastry).
What about drinking? Well... you have beer, beer or beer! No, there's also wine, sparkling wine and water. ;-)
You can also have beer with cola or with soda... but that's for girls! eheh

But the festival is not just about the beer and the food, you also have lots of rides to enjoy from roller-coasters to the giant wheel, water rides, horror rides, magic shows... the all set! ;-)

Besides the festival I also took the opportunity to visit Munich. It's a very interesting german town, without noise, where people are nice, respectful and stressless.
If you ever visit Munich, you have to visit the great Neuschwanstein castle! It's so wonderful that it was the inspiration for the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park!

Well, here are some more pictures and, as germans say when having a toast, ... prost! :-)

Any volunteers to join me next year? ;-)

Pictures: Fun at the Oktoberfest, Munich and Neuschwanstein