---
type: Video
title: "KINDEST Tuk Tuk Driver in PAKISTAN 🇵🇰"
description: A café breakfast, a driver who waits outside for two hours without being asked and then teaches Harry to drive his tuk-tuk, and what he earns in a day.
tags: [pakistan, karachi, tuk-tuks, hospitality, cafes, work-and-wages]
timestamp: 2026-08-06T12:00:00Z
resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3DOdg5wRzY
video_id: I3DOdg5wRzY
upload_date: 2021-12-01
duration: 791
---

# KINDEST Tuk Tuk Driver in PAKISTAN 🇵🇰

A slow day in [Karachi](/places/karachi.md) built around one man: the tuk-tuk
driver Harry and [Mac](/people/mac.md) hire in the morning, who then waits
outside the café for the whole of a long breakfast without being asked to,
drives them on, and ends the afternoon teaching Harry to drive the tuk-tuk on
the seafront.

The number that gives the video its weight comes at the end, when Harry asks
what he earns: **about 1,000 rupees a day, roughly five dollars**, after seven
years driving. Mac tipped him $12 afterwards — off camera, and Harry says so
only in the video description rather than filming it.

Before that it is a comfortable morning: a chocolate café, the best coffee he
has had in the country, and two university students who ask them to watch an
advert and give their reactions for a study.

*Obs: this page is based on auto-generated subtitles, which are garbled in
places; amounts the transcript leaves ambiguous are marked unverified.*

## Itinerary

Tuk-tuk from the Airbnb to a chocolate café → long breakfast → the driver still
waiting outside → seafront → Harry drives the tuk-tuk → fishermen and the
Karachi skyline at the beach.

## Key moments

- [01:02] **Checking a reference price before agreeing one**: Uber quoted about
  $1.60 for the ten-minute trip, so Harry expected to pay around $2. He also
  wonders aloud whether paying up front is the right move — the question the
  previous day's horse ride raised.
- [01:34] His running description of the city: an attack on every sense at once,
  with near-misses in the traffic and someone staring, waving or talking to you
  in every direction.
- [02:45] Butlers Chocolate Café — a full breakfast, a spicy three-egg omelette,
  an Oreo brownie he rates among the best he has eaten, and what he calls the
  best coffee he has had in Pakistan.
- [05:50] A small thing worth knowing: **an iced coffee in Pakistan and the
  Middle East is closer to a milkshake**, where in the UK or US it would be cold
  coffee and nothing else.
- [03:15] Two university students approach their table and ask them to watch an
  advert and describe their reactions, for a study.
- [06:51] The bill: two coffees, two meals and a brownie for 1,600 rupees, which
  Harry calls about twenty dollars (from video – unverified). He rates it good
  value for the quantity and on the expensive side for Karachi, and asks the
  comments to correct him.
- [07:53] The driver is still outside, two hours later, having waited without
  being asked. The café also packs up the meal Harry couldn't finish.
- [08:54] **Driving the tuk-tuk**: mechanically a motorbike with a third wheel
  and a body on it, similar engine, and — Harry's guess — not road-legal in the
  UK for exactly that reason.
- [12:08] The question that reframes the day: **about 1,000 rupees a day, five
  dollars**, over seven years of driving, tourists and locals alike.

## Extracted pages

- [Karachi](/places/karachi.md)
- [Pakistan](/countries/pakistan.md)
- [Mac](/people/mac.md)