Cairo has round about 20 to 25 Million inhabitants, only two subway linies and feels like as if most of the people in Cairo have their own car. Furthermore Cairo is the centre for nearly everything in Egypt and it is a very important city in MENA (Middle East and North Africa). It is quite difficult to get from one place to another if you don`t know the rules. There some roads which are blocked very often and once you get into a jam it can take very long to leave it again.
The most common way for transportation (if you don`t have a car) is taxi. They drive around nearly everywhere and then you just hop on and try to explain where you wanna go. Afterwards you have to pay depending on the time you spended in the car and the distance. For example today I took a ride from Midan Ramses to Nasr City which took about 20 minutes and I paied 14 LE which equals 1,75 €. There also exist busses and so called microbusses, which take you nearly everywhere for one or two Pound, but the problem is that the driver just shouts where he is going and then you hop on. So for me as an non arabic speaker it is nearly impossible to get into the right bus. One more thing about the metro, there are extra waggons for the ladies. If you get there by accident they will start to shout at you and kick you out, sometimes you see tourists getting kicked out, very funny. Something like traffic rules don`t exist in Egypt, everybody just honks all the time, and on big crossings you have policeman regulating the traffic. but somehow I am not feeling unsecure and so far I have not seens any accident.
2 comments:
Sieht ja ein bisschen aus wie hie... bloss die Olympiafahnen fehlen!
Du kleiner Naiver du, TAUSENDE von Unfällen gibt da. Meistens sind die aber weniger schlimmm. Auch dich wirds früher oder später erwischen
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