KINDEST Tuk Tuk Driver in PAKISTAN 🇵🇰

A slow day in Karachi built around one man: the tuk-tuk driver Harry and Mac 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
• Pakistan
• Mac