Machu Picchu in Nepal?

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Here is a bizarre story involving two countries where we work, Nepal and Peru. According to a Reuters article, Royal Nepal Airlines was forced to apologize to the nation of Peru after it used an image of Machu Picchu to promote tourism in Nepal. Peru’s foreign ministry said that the airline put a picture of the country’s icon, Machu Picchu, which is just up the Sacred Valley from our placements in Peru, on a poster under the slogan “Have you seen Nepal?” A Peruvian citizen who was visiting India saw the poster on a wall in Royal Nepal Airlines’ New Delhi office and informed his country’s embassy. I am sure that many volunteers in Peru who have hiked the Inca Trail to see Machu Picchu would be just as surprised to find out that they had wandered into Nepal as our volunteers in Nepal would be to discover the quintessential site of Incan civilization in the Himalayas according to this poster! Talk about a case of mistaken mountain ranges! This advertising flap aside, what is your favorite mountain range? Why would you choose the Andes or the Himalayas? Tell us what you think.

 

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