Oberammergau

"Oberamma-what?!??!"

Thats what I first said when I heard the word. It was as work this past summer while working for Collette Vacations. My boss asked me to reorganize the oberammergau file folders and thats where my learning began.

Oberammergau's Passion Play is an event held in a small town in Bavaria every 10 years from the month of May until October. It is play telling the story of Jesus and it is actually put on by the native townsmen as tradition every 10 years starting in the 1630's. The play started during the time of the Blutonic plague. The towns people of Oberamergau vowed to God that they would put on this play every 10 years if they were kept safe from the plague. Not a single person in the villiage fell victum to the play and so the tradition lives on. The play itself has a running time of seven hours! It is the story of the life and death of Jesus. They serve a meal during the intermission though and usually include accomdations in ticket prices.

Then next time this is going on will be in 2010. But people are already booking their trips!! Collette offers 7 different tours that stop through the town for the play. If your interested I would definitly recamend checking out their itineraries.