Chaotic Arrival In Karachi, Pakistan
I am at the airport in Dubai about to board a flight to go to Karachi Pakistan it's going to be my first time in Pakistan and I will be spending the next few weeks traveling around the country and yeah the plan for today is to hopefully arrive stressfree in one of the biggest cities in the world then figure out how to get to my hotel I book one of the best hotels in town and then get some first impressions of Pakistan of course I'm also curious to try some good Pakistani food later today I'm sure it's going to be an eventful day so join me and let's go to Pakistan yeah Pakistan is not really known to be a popular tourist destination for Western Travelers so it's no surprise that I am the only Western now on this flight and I'm flying with fly Dubai today I just had a short Transit layover here in Dubai and touching the plane for good luck Hi how are you this one here first impression of this Airline actually looks quite nice right but yeah to be honest I am actually a bit nervous to go to Pakistan a few days ago I announced on my Instagram that I'm going to Pakistan and these were some of the comments that I received be careful of the Pakistan be safe Pakistan is full of Islamic if you have hope to live then don't visit Pakistan never been there some parts might be dangerous don't go it's dangerous don't go not to Safe country take care and yeah if you do receive a lot of comments like this it makes something with your head and also just 2 or 3 weeks ago this happened near the airport in Karachi where I'm flying to today so yeah to be completely honest I am a bit nervous to go there but I'm also very very excited many of my friends have already been to Pakistan and they only told me good things about the country so I'm actually looking forward to the trip thank you and we have arrived in Karachi Pakistan let's see how the arrival process will be like here okay let's see how easy it will be to actually enter the country to be honest this was the toughest visa I ever had to get although I have to admit with a German passport I am very spoiled most of the countries I can enter either visa free or I get visa on arrival but here in Pakistan I actually had to apply for a visa in advance and it was quite a long process the whole process took about 7-8 days and cost me in total about $100 including a fee for an agency because at least with a German passport you need a Letter of Invitation from a travel agency and order to get the Pakistan Visa but yeah I know I am very spoiled with my German passport for many people this is just a normal process to get the visa to be honest I think that I was the only tourist on this flight so I don't expect long cues at the immigration area I have health checks here that reminds me of the Year 2020 2021 coming from I'm from Dubai only Dubai why Dubai Dubai yeah okay thank you okay and here we have the immigration area see you hopefully soon on the other side all right and I am in Pakistan that was literally a thing of of 3 minutes very easy very straightforward and yeah I don't have luggage to collect traveling light just with this one backpack and basically behind the luggage collection area we are already outside oh okay let's see how the arrival here is yeah I need cash I need to find an ATM I don't need a SIM card because I'm using an eim more infos about that later and then I need to figure out how to get to my hotel which is uh quite in the city center Pachi oh oh my God that is a sound you don't want to hear at an airport W it looks like they are celebrating that this guy is coming back oh my gosh uh okay ATM um I see a big sign Pepsi over there so looks like they prefer Pepsi over Coca-Cola excuse me where can I find ATM ATM is over there okay thank you all right looks like the ATM is on the other side I'm very very excited to be in Pakistan actually this is a trip I already planned one and a half years ago one and a half years ago I already had the Visa I already had my flight book to no thank you no thank you I already had my flight booked I already had a hotel booked and then 2 days before the flight I got horrible food poisoning while I was in Nepal so then I had to cancel the whole trip to Pakistan so this trip is 1 and A2 years late but I'm happy to finally be here and yeah I heard so many good things about Pakistan especially about the hospitality here like I said many of my friends have been here before they all told me only good things so I'm very excited to explore Pakistan for the next 2 to 3 weeks let's hope the ATM Works so1 us equals to about 277 Pakistani rupia at the moment okay there's something written in rudo here which I can't read and nothing is happening okay that's not a good start excuse me can you read this yeah what does it say cuz nothing is happening jubbly like insurance insurance yeah jub like insurance I don't need insurance now I can't click anything all right take number two maybe I'm trying a smaller amount now maybe the amount was a problem see I can't click anything I yeah so I choose the amount amount 10,000 how many amount 10,000 10,000 but now always this screen comes to be honest I don't think that I can pay via card in the taxis here maybe I can that would be the next option then I think this is the same bank though that I just tried already I'm looking for ATM ATM domestic arrival but this one is not working only 1M only ATM at the airport there's only one ATM here at the airport and that one doesn't work I'm going to try the same ATM now with the different card maybe that will work no General processing error okay second half also not working okay so this is actually the first time this happens to me in a new country that I really can't get cash and it's a bit weird to be honest that they only have 1 atm here so let me actually check how much I need to get to my hotel so they are using a taxi app here called kareim which is basically like uber yeah not sure if I can actually use that here at the airport but let's see luckily I do have internet already so that's not a problem and now I can uh see the right here and I can see a price it says 1,376 let's do that and then later in the city I try to get cash if I use kareim I don't even need cash because the app is connected with my credit card so I can get without cash to my hotel marot hotel Karachi which by the way as I heard is one of the best hotels in town so I'm really excited for that place shallow that means let's go I think your captain is on the way great oh that's easy at least and then yeah later we figure out how I can get cash and yeah while I'm waiting for my taxi to arrive let me tell you why I don't need to get a local SIM card and to be honest that saves so much stress and hassle for me you probably notice when you arrive somewhere completely new you are excited you just want to get to your hotel as fast as possible but you're not connected to the internet yet so so you have to start searching for a local SIM card and especially here in Pakistan I heard that it's almost impossible to get a local SIM card as a foreigner so I'm really happy that I'm having an eim and if you don't know what an eim is an eim is basically a digital SIM card that you can install to your phone even before you start the journey so yesterday I downloaded and installed my Pakistan eim already and then I was able to connect to the internet right away after I landed here so literally while I was still sitting in the plane I was able to check emails and send messages and I am using a app called Holly to get my esims they have almost 200 destinations available different data plans to choose from many even with unlimited data it works super simple just choose your destination choose a data plan and then the app tells you exactly how to install everything step by step you can literally get it done in like 2 minutes it's dead simple and if you want to check out Holly as well just click the link in the description on the pin comment you can get their eims either on their app or via their website and if you use my link you will also get an exclusive discount just click the link down below and make sure that your phone actually does support eims but most phones nowadays do so the kareim will come to McDonald's yes McDonald left side right side so I just walked over there he said it's best to wait at McDonald's for the driver so that's what I'm going to do I am at McDonald's pink Toyota Pixies it's not moving but he's saying okay all right I'm not in a rush it's no problem excuse me can can you help me try translate what the driver is saying tell him I'm looking for the magdonald yeah I told him I at McDonald's and then he said okay and then he sent this text he's saying I'm at your location oh really yes oh okay I have a look then okay thank you so much for your help okay apparently the driver texted me that he's at my location but if I'm looking at the map he's not near here I think that's him right here oh hello Salam alikum hello okay cello I think cello means let's go and yeah I think the taxi ride will be 2530 minutes the airport is a bit outside of the city and my hotel is quite in the city center of Karachi yeah the whole time I was at the airport here I haven't seen another Wester I'm not sure if Pakistan is popular for tourists maybe from the Middle East or from other Asian countries but it's definitely not a truest destination for Western Travelers seems to be a lot of security here any security here right like there like wires on the on the road so many armed guards here police military he was actually just uh telling me that I should film here right make video here he was like a film film here so yeah these are literally my first impressions of Pakistan we have people on a motorbike here three people on the bike and this is the road leading into Karachi now so these are still build some outskirts yeah Karachi is one of the biggest cities in the world I think it's currently in the top 15 most populated cities in the world with about 20 21 million people living in the whole metro area there's a big security check here at the entrance to the hotel they even have a dog going around the car and so many armed security guys here okay thank you byebye all right and let's see what $180 a I gets you in Karachi Pakistan how are you hello good evening check in here yeah check in go this way you are a vlogger yeah I do I make [Music] videos hello good evening hello oh there's a car here in the lobby that looks cool good evening hello good evening I would like to check in yes sure thank you what's the car over there yeah there's the car of Prince bah B Prince B so it's a famous car definitely from famous person at that time at the that time that car was very expensive in the world okay check in process completed and yeah first my card also wasn't working here so I was a bit worried already but then he got another card reading machine and then my card was working okay let's check out what $180 di gets you here in kadachi Pakistan like I said I heard that this is one of the best hotels in town and first impression here the room looks really spacious everything is like with this brown design that looks very unique let's check out the view H the view is nothing too special I would say so there's a little desk area here the bed looks comfy let's check out the bathroom really quick shower toilet sink area really nice and we have coffee and tea making facilities here let's see if they have anything in the mini bar no all right it is the next day actually now and yeah the main mission for today now is to get cash because yeah yesterday evening I was able to pay with my cart here for my dinner but I definitely need cash to explore the city in the next days so that is the main mission now and then I also want to get first impressions of course and I also want to try Pakistani food so these are the two missions that we have now okay let's see if I can just walk out of the hotel here this is the high security area to enter the hotel all right and here right next to the hotel is a bank actually hello so let's try my luck here and hopefully the ATM works here with my card all right Happy Days the first card I tried was not working there was an error message on the screen but then the second card I tried actually worked so I finally have cashier now hello I feel very relieved now and yeah I had a look on Google Maps and there's a place around the corner where I can get some Pakistani food I think they are selling kebabs and burgers so let's see how I can actually get there hello can I walk here or here are going uh there's a restaurant that I want to go to restaurant here's a restaurant I forgot the name something with Burger something kebab and burger there yeah but can I walk on this side can walk here yeah okay to the thank you all right the friendly policeman said I can walk on this side I have the impression that they really like to uh ride on motorbikes here and they have this very unique type of motorbike here not these typical scooters that you usually see for example in Southeast Asia it's a more unique bike here hello oh it even says unique oh I like the bike a good bike oh that was funny I literally called the bike unique unique looking and then I saw the name on the bike is actually unique oh there's a bridge here I'm not sure if I can walk over the bridge H can I walk here can can I walk yeah yeah yeah yeah over the bridge okay thank you just need to be a bit careful here jump over this oh this is interesting looks like there's a huge chest board on the ground here oh that's cool actually can you play it oh no it's not for playing it's you can't move it Oh I thought this is like a like a public chess board that you can actually use to play but no these statues here are not movable ah I can actually walk here no problem so what I also noticed here is they have a lot of these uh yeah I'm not sure how you call it here in Pakistan Tuk TOS or Rick Shaws or three wheelers these vehicles have many different names in different countries but I see a lot of them here on the roads people raving at me honking at me smiling hello hello oh my first impression of the people here is very nice the people seem to be very friendly and welcoming here oh look at that the local is just raising his hand and then he's crossing the road maybe that's the way to do it de all right trying the same raising the hand and crossing the road that seems to be the Pakistani way of crossing the road I know in Malaysia for example they do something similar and they call it the power of the hand all right so we do have quite a few options here this looks like a convenience store then here I think I can get a juices but I looking for a place that sells Kebab fruit Cobra Cobra Cobra you have a cobra cobra oh I can see oh does he really have a cobra here no way there's a real cobra in here oh maybe it is you have a real Cobra here CRA oh oh hello oh that's a we Cobra Cobra Cobra not dangerous oh he actually has a cobra and I have an audience around me already she tried to bite you it's not dangerous not dangerous ah no teeth ah I think the snake doesn't have teeth anymore so the snake actually can't bite him oh okay that was very interesting let me give him some uh some how much wood you give him she good food but how much okay okay thank you very much very interesting okay yeah please help me out in the comments guys I have no idea how much to give to uh in in situations like this like I gave him like I think 150 now let me know in the comments because I'm not sure what is the right amount or not hello oh nice to meet you Salam alikum I'm from Germany oh Germany yeah I am Pakistan in you're from Pakistan uh where are you City My City in Germany Germany why are you Germany in the whole I am from North Germany North Germany yeah from the small village a h selfie yeah we starting a video now hello hello Asam Alum how are you I'm very good yeah you are C I'm from Germany and today is my first day in Pakistan why Germany in the whole city of where City Freeman Freeman Freeman Freeman is the very beautiful or not beautiful so so some areas are beautiful some not so a you are not married I'm not married yet no no uh how are you age my age 33 32 33 32 uh my friend yeah you're my friend how what is your name my name is Ken Ken Ken Ken yeah I make a videos for YouTube you YouTube yeah yeah YouTube okay yeah yeah nice to meet you oh hello hello I have to say I think the people here The Stereotype what I heard about the Pakistani people that they are very hospitable my first impression here is that it seems to be true and it's always a really good feeling when you arrive as a stranger in a new country and everyone is so warm and welcoming to you asking where are you from what are you doing here smiling greeting you so I really really love that here so far according to Google Maps there's a place here selling kebabs which I would like to try oh I think it's right here oh have a look at this I think I can get Kebab here that looks like chicken hello Salam alikum you have Kebab here you have Kebab chicken beef uh beef can I get one beef how much uh 620 620 okay can I get one yeah okay oh they also have a flat bread here looks similar like non bread yeah okay okay look hello oh yeah that's the beef here Alum can I see how you prepare it yeah oh okay check it out so he's having a lot of meat here actually just wrapping it around the iron stick and then it's going from here over to you grill it here right you put on the grill here yeah right okay oh check it out from I'm from Germany Germany Germany yeah oh hello today is my first day in Pakistan I just arrived here so we have a charcoal grill right here and then he's just putting it on here oh very hot here actually how many minutes you grill it 10 minutes okay easy yeah look at the the meat it looks actually quite thick so that is going to be a big portion I'm not sure if I'm going to get both of them but if I do then I think it's going to be a decent portion okay again Ken Ken k n you yeah yeah YouTube and Facebook and Tik Tok okay oh that looks delicious actually so this is beef shish kebab and then how you call this bread this is put Puri parata okay okay oh I just met a friendly guy India he a Russ right yeah yeah you just ask if you can sit here so we can chat so how your experience here know it's your first day yeah literally just this is my first impression here now no you have been to any other cities before or just no this is the first time in pakist first time in Pakistan yeah first day nice and this is the first time I eat Pakistani food you will love it I hope so I really hope so it smells delicious already so he actually just uh told me that actually this is the special thing to order here right yeah you should try this thing looks like a like a good burger actually it's a burger yeah what's the sauce yeah it's made of green chilies yeah and turmeric and garlic and some other spices is it spicy yeah it's spicy you should try this thing I order the I can't eat spicy very bad you like it then youit all right let me just take a quick picture for Instagram if you're not following me on Instagram yet yet feel free to also follow me there I'm posting daily stories live updates behind the scenes how do you usually eat this no with hands with hands oh I don't have a sanitized hands so you usually you put the meat inside the bread and then with some sauce okay so the meat with the bread the sauce and the vegetables yeah you can eat directly or you can put inside so okay can but don't need to right oh oh thank you so much cha oh but now I have four FKS that's okay I think I can use these the food tastes better with hands oh I heard the same before in Malaysia for example but yeah I don't have my my hand sanitized now actually I want to try the meat just plain like this first without any sauce just to meat is it oh it's really good has a fresh kick to it like maybe they put some mint inside yeah is that possible they mint uh corander and some uh onions CH mint coriander onions and chili oh yeah the after taste is a bit spicy yeah if you're new here I'm not really good with eating spicy food my stomach is really really weak handling spicy food but uh this spicy level seems to be okay not too not too much ni I have some to oh yeah nice to meet you nice thank you very much have a good day oh what a friendly gentleman he was sitting opposite of me and then he saw me here alone we started chatting and then he asked if he can join me oh okay anyway so now I want to try it actually with the SAU here so this one looks like a brown sauce and this one maybe a yogurt sauce let me try this one first oh I love this sauce I'm not sure if I can 100% identify what it is but I think it's some type of yogurt sauce now let me try the brown one oh the brown one definitely has a spicy kick to it I think I prefer the the right one here there has no spicy kick to the right one okay but now I'm also curious to try it with the bread let me spread some of the r sauce on the bread and then one piece of the meat and then we roll everything together and basically eating it like a r oh the bread is like a crispy type of Roti Shai parata similar like the Roti Shai in Malaysia for example or the Nan Breads in India but this one is a bit more crispy oh it's also very oily so this is a very heavy meal actually I need to learn how to say delicious here in uru that's one of the most important words you need to learn in a new country oh but the meat is amazing it's really well spiced so many different flavors combined but this is actually great as a first meal in Pakistan I think to be honest I had a meal yesterday already in my hotel but they had like a western style bouet there so this is my first Pakistani food I'm eating here yeah I was actually not able to finish everything because it was quite a big portion so I have a little booty bag here now let's give the food to this gentlemen yeah you can have it okay have a good day thank you all right so that was my first meal in Pakistan and that was already a pretty delicious meal I have to say oh and we have donkeys here oh Salam alikum hello oh I like your dys oh oh hello hello oh oh you see interesting things here on the road in Pakistan I have the feeling right I found a little convenience store I want to get some drinks for my hotel mainly just water but this is uh maybe like the 7-Eleven of Pakistan a little convenience store where you can buy basically everything yeah looks like a mini Supermarket very typical for South Asian countries you can find these no name stores basically on every corner I want to get a big bottle of water oh sparkling water actually I really like sparkling water fun fact in Germany where I am from we prefer sparkling water over the regular water so if you order a water in a German restaurant you will always get sparkling water unless you specifically ask for non-sparkling hello are you a taxi taxi I want to go to my hotel marage Hotel 10 how much how much 100 can you translate I'm asking if he is a taxi to go to my hotel Hotel name marage marage Mar hotel 200 200 and he know the hotel yeah okay okay okay okay thank you for your help okay all right luckily I got some help from the guy I just want to go back to my hotel which is uh just down the road basically okay that's the car start not working not sure what he's saying ah this is your taxi uhhuh okay okay maybe I can't take this taxi what about this guy then hello you can drive me to my hotel yeah marot Hotel Mar hotel yeah you can drive no no okay all right I'm not sure what's going on are these Tok TOS or Wick shs no taxi here please help me out in the comments if you can translate what they were saying I'm curious to know what the problem was hello you can drive yeah I want to go to my hotel marot hotel Mar yeah you can drive okay how much uh 100 okay AA that's half the price than the other guy was asking oh that's a strong engine so now I feel like that the first price wasn't an honest price because he started literally with half the price okay it's literally just down the road yeah so it's maybe like a 5 minute ride maximum oh I don't understand sleeping I'm not sure what you mean ah he's trying to say something with sleeping I think but it's also very loud here maybe I just don't understand it because of the noises here what did you say I I didn't understand no no speak English no speak English no problem I don't speak Udu unfortunately all good no problem you can stop here he's okay yeah yeah to clear thank you very much nice to meet you have a good evening byebye all right and I am back at my hotel and yeah if you are from Pakistan please feel free to let me know in the comments all your recommendations which places I should visit which food I should try let me know everything in the comments and if you haven't seen my previous video where I was still in the Mal Dives and feele to check out the video right here stay healthy stay positive and then see you on the next episode ciao guys
2024-10-29 06:05
