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Royal Nepal Airlines’ wee mistake, in promoting Nepal’s tourism industry, was that it used a photo of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in its posters. The problem, however, is that Machu Picchu is not exactly anywhere in Nepal, but in Peru.

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. Peruvian authorities requested explanations from the airline via the embassy.

“The airline … offered apologies to Peru for using the picture of the Machu Picchu Sanctuary on a poster to promote their country and assured that the lamentable error has been corrected,” the foreign ministry said.

The photo was used on a promotional poster under a slogan, “Have you seen Nepal?”

Said posters may probably now have clever graffiti from hot-blooded Peruvians: “Well, have you?”

via NEWS

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