Culture Trip is a British tech start-up that "inspires people to explore the world’s culture".

Promoting different places

One way they are promoting that is by publishing articles about different places.

One December 2016 article they published, which has been faking it but not really making it, is titled, "10 Pictures That Capture Singapore's Natural Wonders".

Except that Culture Trip didn't quite get it right.

Not really Singapore

That cover image is actually a stock photo of a fisherman on the Mekong River.

The Mekong River runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, but unfortunately, not through Singapore.

While we may be tempted to claim such a beautiful mountain and river as our own, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve actually is beautiful in its own way.

It's Vietnam

This image used below is of the Van Long natural reserve in Ninh Binh, Vietnam -- miles away from Bukit Timah.

Lastly, there is Palawan Beach:

Except that it is not. That's El Nido, in the Philippines:

To be fair, the other photos got Singapore right.

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The writer, Prianka Ghosh, who seems to write a lot on Singapore based on her Culture Trip portfolio, chose the right images for MacRitchie Reservoir, Lazarus Island, Pulau Ubin, and Changi Beach.

Prianka contacted us after this article was first published to let us know that the pictures eventually featured on the article were not the ones she had initially submitted to them, and that she has since contacted The Culture Trip to alert them to the wrong images they had subsequently added to her piece.

However, it has to be noted that an article like this appears to be selling the romanticised version of a country.

Well, at least they didn't mistake us for China.

That's progress right?

Top photo collage adapted from Culture Trip article screenshots