Did she go on a five-week vacation to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos? Did she go snorkeling, and visiting Buddhist shrines? Did she skype her family every day from the other end of the world? It certainly looks like she did, for pictures, videos and text on Dutch student Zilla's social media site seem to show it.

However, Zilla Van Der Born of Amsterdam faked everything just to make a point---that unreal life could be made to look like the truth. She faked her vacation not to cheat, but merely for an assignment to prove to everyone that "the world as we know it is a lie." She said to the media in Amsterdam, according to mamamia: "We create an online world which reality can no longer meet."

Hence, she totally made up a five-week holiday in Southeast Asia. Five weeks ago, she asked her family to drop her to the airport, pretending that she was going on an overseas trip. She then caught a bus to secretly go back home, and never went anywhere outside Amsterdam. Instead, she sat in her bedroom and worked on her laptop for five weeks, manipulating her photographs and putting up false status updates. She talked to her family on Skype at odd times of the night to take the dupe forward. Her plans were listed in a big calendar that charted out whatever she was going to do during her journeys. She pulled hoods over her face to venture out in the streets of Amsterdam city and did up her bedroom like a beautiful hotel room in order to shoot her Skype conversations and make them look real.

A graphic designer from Amsterdam and her sterling Photoshop skills helped her to fib glibly to everyone about her trips abroad. A photographer and post-production specialist also pitched in to help her stage it for a university project.

Zilla has posted all her photos and videos of her journey on her website and Facebook page. They show her sitting in a bikini, sipping something in a tropical beach. The descriptions are interesting, even if they are rather vain. "Just hanging out!" and "Gotta keep hydrated in this warm weather!" say two of them, according to ctvnews.com.

Food photos she had taken at exotic restaurants in Amsterdam were shown to be Asian cuisine. She even shot a snorkeling selfie in her apartment's swimming pool and many videos to demonstrate how she faked all her photos. So when she pretended to be snorkelling with a fish, she was in a pool in her apartment. She Photoshopped the tropic fish later, and uploaded it on social media.

"My goal was to prove how common and easy it is for people to distort reality. Everyone knows that pictures of models are manipulated, but we often overlook the fact that we manipulate reality also in our own lives," said Zilla.

Finally, she exhibited videos to show that she had many doctored shots that were fake, that she had travelled through Amsterdam in disguise, replaced by vacation clothes. Her 42-day "fake" journey through Southeast Asia was thus highlighted. Zilla had indeed lied throughout her "journey," yet she had won her point.