11
Jan
2007
Posted by: Mark Ashley

machu picchu How to get to Nepal (by way of Peru)

And they say Americans have a lousy sense of geography… From the home office in Kathmandu:

Royal Nepal Airlines has apologized to Peru after mistakenly using a photo of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu to promote tourism in Nepal.

Peru’s foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday the flagship carrier of the Himalayan kingdom, about half way around the world from the Andean country, had put the picture of Peru’s tourism icon, Machu Picchu, on a poster under a slogan “Have you seen Nepal?”

Peruvian mountaineer Ernesto Malaga, who was visiting India last month, noticed the blunder on a poster hanging on a wall in the airline’s office in New Delhi.

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2 Responses to “How to get to Nepal (by way of Peru)”

  1. Oliver Says:

    Hehe… the splash screen intro on their website uses the slogal “Fly the airline that knows Nepal best”.

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