Okay so was this legit unusual or am I paranoid?
Flew into the airport this morning and we got a pre-paid taxi van home. We had our 3 young kids and a trunk of suitcases with us.
So on the way home (we’re foreigners and have lived in country for a year so we’re decently familiar with things) we got off onto the service road on Ring and while stopped I noticed these two guys on a bike beside us pull out a MASSIVE wad of 1000 rupees. It caught my eye cause it definitely seemed out of the norm. Like it was a crap ton of cash.
Then to make it weirder the passenger yelled “Dai” out to the driver, tapped on the window, and handed him a bunch of the 1000 notes. (13x to be exact because he double counted in the car and at that my husband and I both were paying by extra attention). Then the guys on the bike got ahead of us and got off onto a side road and the taxi driver started to follow him. Quickly my husband stopped him and said that wasn’t our turn off and the driver got flustered with him.
So the guys on the bike kept driving ahead weren’t seen again and the taxi driver took us to our house but with super weird body language. He looked really uncomfortable and was basically silent.
So was that legit weird or am I overthinking it? I usually feel safe in Lalitpur and don’t find myself overly suspicious of people around me. But this seemed extra strange. Thoughts?
Taxi might have been ferrying few kilos of gold from airport.
Yeah, I think they had their own business unrelated to you. It was probably close, so he thought he was just gonna take a quick detour. But you got mad, so he dropped you off first.
13000 RS is not huge wad of cash. They were probably doing business unrelated to you guys.
It’s super weird and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Where in lalitpur was this? i wouldnt remotely worry about safety issues as a foreigner in Nepal, let alone Kathmandu/Lalitpur, though.
13X would be 100$
Probably wanted to use you as a cover fot some contraband as police are less likely to search cars with foreigners in them. 13 K is not that much money that should worry you.
Probably Ganja supply related.
maybe something illegal
I would have asked the driver.