Luang Prabang: Wearing gold-embroidered silk, faces thick with makeup, a line-up of seven Laotian beauty queens greet cheering supporters at the annual new year beauty contest in Luang Prabang.
But this is no regular pageant: the contestants are stand-ins for the seven blessed daughters of Laos’ legendary heavenly King Kabinlaphom competing at the country’s most famous beauty contest.
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