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Pou Nyer

Masked merriment: sacred Laos ‘ancestors’ honoured for new year

April 17, 2019 by DailyTimes.pk

Barefoot and cloaked in swinging bamboo ropes, two masked performers dressed as Laos’ legendary “ancestors” walk the streets of Luang Prabang on an annual outing for raucous new year celebrations drawing hundreds of worshippers to the normally sleepy city. Revellers splash water on the pair and their gold-studded masked lion cub during the annual procession […]

Filed Under: Infotainment Tagged With: ancestor, bamboo ropes, elderly couple, Masked merriment, New Year, Nyar Nyer, Pou Nyer, sacred Laos, worshippers

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