Being a foreigner means that you are a target. All this an effort to try to get more money out of us. And then there's the traffic. If you plan to travel about 10 kilometers, then plan for at least one hour travel time. I'm not joking.
Drivers pay absolutely no attention to lanes, lights, or anything else.
During one trip down a side lane, we passed a man pushing a two-wheeled cart filled with scrap metal during a downpour. My friends in the taxi even had time to roll down the window to buy mangos from a street vendor.