Machu Picchu gets relocated in airline ad

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One way to get people to visit your country (though they may never come a second time) is to entice them with wondrous historic sites that you don’t actually have. In a recent poster, Royal Nepal Airlines showed a photo of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, along with the headline, “Have you seen Nepal?” People who have seen Nepal, or Machu Picchu, may be confused by this, since Machu Picchu is not in Nepal.

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