Miss Gabon 2009 bids for Glory in China

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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 27, 2009 -- Marlyne Lea Ayene; Miss Gabon 2009 has arrived in Beijing China along with 40 other beauties from around the world for the start of the 2009 International Beauty and Model festival.

Marlyne Lea Ayene who was crowned Miss Gabon 2009 in December 2008, becomes the first reigning Miss Gabon and sponsored by Beauties of Africa Inc to represent Gabon at an international beauty pageant in Asia.

The event will last 3 weeks and Marlyne Lea will be proudly flying the flag for Gabon. Various dignitaries from Gabon are also expepcted to be in attendance

The host city for the festival is Kunming

Because of its high altitude Kunming weather is typically characterized by intense sunlight during the daytime and a slight chill at night. When the rest of China is hot, Kunming is one of the country's coolest cities. When the northern half of the country is frozen and covered with snow, flowers are blooming. Hence, Kunming's nickname in Chinese is 'Spring City'.

Kunming sits upon the Yunnan Plateau, which rises toward the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau heading northwest and yields to lower altitude tropical jungle heading southward toward Southeast Asia. The city is surrounded by mountains and is just northeast of Dianchi Lake, the largest lake in the province and the sixth-largest freshwater lake in China.

Kunming is rapidly becoming one of China's more internationalized cities. It has sister city relationships with Denver, Colorado in the United States and Wagga Wagga, New South Wales in Australia. Within five years it will have road and rail connections to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in addition to rail links to Hanoi, Vientiane, Phnom Penh. After the Stilwell Road is renovated, Kunming will be the only Chinese city connected to India by road. It will also be the main Chinese city of the China-ASEAN Asia Free Trade Area which will be launched in 2010 and will be the world's largest FTA with over 1.8 billion people.

Today Kunming is a major tourist city in China. It often serves as a mere stopover for travelers on their way to more idyllic or exotic locales in Yunnan such as Dali, Lijiang, Zhongdian (recently designated as 'Shangri-la' by Beijing), Deqin or Xishuangbanna, but the city has much to see in its own right.

One of the biggest draws for tourists coming to Kunming (other than the great weather and clean air) is the city's ethnic d

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