Um, this is Peru, not Nepal, after all
From Times Wire Reports
Peru’s Foreign Ministry said Royal Nepal Airlines, based about halfway around the world, had put a picture of Peru’s Inca ruins of Machu Picchu on a poster with the slogan: “Have you seen Nepal?”
“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,” a ministry statement said. It said an airline employee had been fired.
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