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Taken for a ride
Illegal taxis and aggressive vendors give tourists a rude welcome to Vietnam
Last week, Rasnita Mohd Rasid and her friend took their longest taxi ride.
In terms of geographical distance, it was not too long, as Rasid and her friend discovered when they took the return journey on the same route in another taxi.
From Tan Son Nhat International Airport to Ben Thanh Market, the taxi driver charged them VND150,000 (US$7.3), which is when the enormity of the swindle they were victims of really sank in.
The taxi driver who took them from the market to the airport had demanded $400 (more than VND8 million plus another 300 Malaysian Ringgit ($98.6)) and Rasid had ended up paying VND4 million, almost $200.
Worse still, they had been dropped far outside the airport in the rain, and made to walk after paying a colossal sum.
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