How to get to Nepal (by way of Peru)
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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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January 11th, 2007 at 4:50 pm |
Hehe… the splash screen intro on their website uses the slogal “Fly the airline that knows Nepal best”.
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:27 am |
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