Today wake up at 9.30 for breakfast, then we start packing our luggages. Our taxi is waiting for us at 12.00. It will cost 80 MYR (16 euros) to be driven to the airport 1 hour far away… We do the check out and then directly to the airport. The taxi driver is friendly. We start talking, then after a while he stop to a gas station for refueling… It’s not common that a taxi driver goes to buy gas with customers in the car… but if the car need gas… the car need gas… and in Malaysia is better avoid any risk. At least I have a chance to see how refueling here differs from Europe… First of all the driver open the hood of the car and connects the gas pump to some strange tank located in the hood.

Then the price of the petrol… Ladies and gentelmens… you cannot immagine. Petrol here cost 0.68 MYR per liter… that converted in euro is 0.125 euro per liter… it’s crazy to think that in Europe we pay it 10 times more…

We arrive to the International Airport of Kuala Lumpur and there is a lot of confusion. We spend 1 hour eating something and visiting the few shops, then we do the check in and the boarding. On the plane we meet a friendly malaysian that asked us what we have seen in Kuala Lumpur. We basically answer the Petronas Towers where the main thing, and he got almost mad cause he say we missed many other nice things. The flight was ok… so when we arrive in Hong Kong and we get our luggage.

We go to an Info Point asking how to get to the hotel and the taxi prices. The lady at the Info Point suggests us to take a taxi cause it would have cost only few Hong Kong Dollars more then the public transportation. At the exit of the airport, we realize that the Hong Kong airport is full of unauthorized taxi drivers. One of them also showed us an ‘authentic’ taxi driver license… we wanted to make a comparison so we asked him how much his price would have been and he wanted to charge us the double of the price of a normal taxi… with the excuse that the price communicated by the Info Point was per person… moreover he was not having any authorized taxi label on the roof of the car or any taxi meter in the car…
We give our best greetings to that driver and we go to the taxi station. Here it’s easy to identify real taxi cause the cars are red or green with a big taxi label on the roof of the car. It takes half an hour from the airport and we payed 240 HKD (24 euros). We arrive quite tired to the hotel and we go directly to sleep at midnight.

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