It may be Christmas Eve but it's a good time to point out that tickets for the Oberammergau Passion Play (held once every TEN years) are available beginning in January 2008. Naturally, they are through tour operators who include them in their tours through Germany (and Austria in some cases). Given the popularity of this event, it's not a bad idea to sign up now with the appropriate cancellation insurance along with the tour deposit. Reservations without a tour (if any are to be had) will not be available until January of 2009.
The play itself is a fulfillment of a 1633 oath made by survivors of the Black Death plague during the Thirty Years' War. Each performance of the life of Christ takes six hours and is done in two parts of the same day by more than 2,000 residents of Oberammergau, Germany.
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