Here's the first edition of my 1st week Cairo blog, each with a different topic.
This post: Driving in Cairo.
Driving in Cairo is absolutely insane. Traffic laws are merely a suggestion. Lanes are essentially just a waste of paint; today I literally saw two cars in one lane, widthwise. I wish I'd been able to take a picture. The traffic is unreal; coming home at 2am on Saturday night from the airport, we got stuck in traffic. In addition, the cars drive incredibly close to each other, within inches, especially in tight traffic as cars weave in between others (albeit incredibly slowly given the amount of traffic). Furthermore, people cross fearlessly as cars fly by them on both sides, hopefully stopping or swerving in time to miss them.
All that being said, I've yet to see any accidents or people getting hit.
On the side of the road, cars will double-park and leave their doors unlocked with only a parking brake on; if someone who's parked in needs to get out, someone on the street will climb into the car and help out in pushing the car out of the way.
More to come soon!
Kevin
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The traffic/parking is crazy. When I was in Cairo the advice I got was just find a native to help you cross the street lol How is your arabic holding up? How about your host family? Common Kevin, don't you know how to blog properly? ;)
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