A naked visitor toasts with his one-liter beer mug during the opening day of the
Oktoberfest in Munich September 18, 2004. Millions of beer drinkers from around
the world will come to the Bavarian capital Munich for the world's biggest and
most famous beer festival, the Oktoberfest. The 171st Oktoberfest lasts from
September 18 until October 3. Some six million people are expected to visit 14
enormous tents, each capable of holding up to 10,000 people at a time, drinking
some 5.5 million litres (1.453 million U.S. gallons) of beer in the process.  
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