Oktoberfest and DJ Tiesto
Trip Start
Mar 09, 2007
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Trip End
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Cordoba,
Argentina
Sunday, October 14, 2007
We got home at 7am Sunday morning only to get up at noon to head off to an Oktoberfest celebration. There is quite a bit of influence from Europe here in Argentina, German being one of the strongest (besides Italian and Spanish). Every year the town of Villa General de Belgrano throws a two week long Oktoberfest. So we got a group together to go check it out. Its about a 2hr bus ride from Cordoba and we arrived to a scene of streets filled with tons of Argentinian German-want-to-bees. The town was filled with people. Drunk people.
The main problem would be leaving Oktoberfest, as people pour in from everywhere at all times of the day and they all look to leave around the same time at the end of the day. We were lucky enough to secure some bus tickets for 11:30pm after having waited on line for 30mins (we bought them as soon as we arrived). With bus tickets in hand we went off in search of our first beer. We were disappointed that to enter the actual beer garden they were going to charge us 20 Pesos (6-7US dollars), might not sound like a lot, but thats a lot for Argentinian standards. There was just as much of a party on the street as in the beer garden, so we gave them the finger and partied on the street the rest of the day.
We ended up drinking at this outdoor bar that had a huge patio the whole time. As the day progressed, we got drunker, we lost our table to the ever expanding dance floor, to which we lost ourselves within, and eventually it started to rain. The rain continued and the party only got rowdier. Seriously, I feel like in the US or Europe, the party would have slowly fizzled, but here it didn't. It was cold, raining, and everyone was loving it. It was packed. If there was a table, then there were people dancing on it or mooning someone. People were soaked, yet the beer still flowed.
By 11pm, we were soaked by the rain and cold, but it didn't matter because we were hammered, we had eaten and were on our way to the bus station. The bus station was a mess. I was the only person in our group of 7 that had bought tickets for DJ Tiesto who was playing in 3 hours back in Cordoba. I had to make it back to meet up with other friends that would be going to the show as well. It didn't look like we were going to get our bus because somehow all the seats had already been taken. CuCu was in the front of the line however and one seat became free, she pulled me to the front and threw me on the bus. I totally owe her for that, big time. I was the only one from our group that made it onto the actual bus, the rest of them ended up waiting another 40mins.
I passed out the entire time on the bus, got back to Cordoba at 1:30am, sprinted the entire way to the hostel (about 20 blocks, no taxis' were on the street) and arrived just as my other friends were walking out the door to the show. They waited for me and two minutes later we were out the door on the way to the show. I got super lucky with timing. If CuCu hadn't given me the last seat and if I hadn't sprinted all the way back, I would have had to go to the whole 5hr show by myself. That would have sucked.
DJ Tiesto was awesome. He played under what was basically a huge circus tent. Ten thousand people were there. There were so many people we couldn't get close and were stuck towards the outer rim of the venue. But it didn't matter. Tiesto went on at 2:30 and played till 6:30am. People were rocking the fuck out, there was so much energy in there. I drank a few RedBull vodkas to pull me through the night, never would have made it otherwise. We danced the morning away and saw the sun starting to rise on the horizon. The music was amazing. Tickets cost 100 Pesos for guys and 70 for girls (about 30 and 20 US dollars), an interesting concept I thought. Great night.
