Farmers' wives dressed in traditional Bavarian costumes ride in wooden carriages on the way to the church of Bad Toelz during the Leonhard procession November 6, 2004. The procession is an annual event that started in the 17th century to pray to St. Leonhard, the patron saint of animals. (Reuters)

Bavarian men in traditional clothes play their Alphorn instruments during a meeting on top of the mountain Fellhorn near the southern Bavarian town of Oberstdorf July 24, 2005.(Reuters)

A Bavarian tries to pull his opponent over the table during traditional Bavarian finger pulling championships, called 'Fingerhakln', in the southern Bavarian resort town of Mittenwald on July 20, 2003. (Reuters)