BAVARIAN YOUTH ENJOY A RIDE IN A ROLLERCOASTER AT THE OKTOBERFEST IN MUNICH, 2003-09-21 (photo)

Bavarian youth enjoy a ride in a rollercoaster at the luna park of the Oktoberfest beer festival September 21, 2003. Thousands of beer drinkers from around the world, many in traditional Bavarian lederhosen, flocked to Munich on a sunny Sunday for the largest and most famous beer festival on earth, the Oktoberfest. By the time the 170th Oktoberfest ends on October 5, some six million visitors are expected to have passed through 14 enormous tents, each capable of holding up to 10,000 people at a time, and to have drunk over 5.5 million litres (1.453 million U.S. gallons) of beer. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle WR/JOH