Mohacs Busojaras

The weekend before Ash Wednesday there is an annual festival in the city of Mohacs about an hour and 45 minutes south of Budapest.  This festival has been going on for hundreds of years featuring men dressed in some sort of sheep skin costume with crazy masks.

I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of the festival is.   One story I heard is that it is celebrating a time when the Turks had taken over the town and one stormy night the townspeople dressed up in crazy costumes and scared the Turks of for a little while.  Another reason I heard is that they are chasing winter away.  Whatever the reason is seems to be a reason for men to dress up and behave inappropriately!

It was a lot of fun and we'll have to go back to see the massive bonfire in the town center that we missed because we had to get back to let Midnight out.  

In the mean time these guys will be waiting!