Bangkok: A Twitter post claiming to be a photo of tourists climbing the steps to show a temple in India dedicated to the Hindu God Shiva, which went viral, has been proven to actually be the Buddhist temple ‘Wat Arun’ in Bangkok, Thailand.
This post has been shared more than 12,000 times since it was first published to Facebook on May 30, 2019.
The caption of the post is in Hindi and reads, “Who says Taj Mahal is extraordinary, our Shiva Temple is also extraordinary.”
The photo was also shared by the Facebook page “Proud To Be Indian” May 31, 2019 and has also been shared on Twitter.
A reverse image search on Google found that the same photo was posted on December 20, 2013 on the website of a photographer named Corina Mitrescu. The image is titled “Steep stairs Wat Arun” and is part of an album called “Bangkok, day 2 – temples”.
