Driving in Egypt is a pure talent, no other way to describe it. They have their own horn language. The roads are lined but the lines are ignored. If traffic, which is pretty much all the time, an Egyptian will find a pocket and slide their car into it. If the road has only 3 painted lanes, Egyptians will make 4 or 5 lanes. I call this Orderly Chaos.
Oh and don't get me started about kids and cars. So, kids in Egypt basically stand up in the car, whilethecar is moving. Very rarely they are strapped in by a seatbelt. Kids are hanging out of a window or the sunroof. Teenagers are sitting on the door while in traffic. Small children are sitting on their fathers lap, while the father is driving. My friend once saw a mother breast feeding her baby while driving. Or kids sitting in the trunk while driving in traffic.
Egyptians never obey the rules of driving. They are either going too fast or going through red lights or not putting on their signal light. Egyptians will go in reverse on the highway because they missed their exit or there is an accident and they don't want to wait. They're thankfully checkpoints for speeders, but only sometimes checkpoints.
Orderly Chaos...the Art of Driving in Egypt.
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