Getting Behind the Wheel In Crazy Cairo (If You Dare) 

This is actually incredibly accurate. On the other side, when i left Egypt to Germany years ago, i couldn't drive for years, i had anxity while driving because of the many rules. When i decided i need a German licence, i passed the driving test right away. the German examiner asked me if i used to drive in Cairo, i said yes, he said: "i should have given u the licence without a test, if u can survive in Cairo, u can drive anywhere" :D

Bangkok: “our traffic is crazy!” Cairo: “hold my shisha pipe”

I will never complain in the UK again

Pretty interesting how humans always organize themselves, no matter how chaotic the situation is.

Haha I'm Egyptian and most of my life decisions I take into consideration how am I going to avoid traffic and driving!

New York City: no one respect my traffic laws Cairo: 🙄

I just got back from a 5-day trip to Egypt (well, it was a 3-week trip to Italy, with 5 days of Egypt mixed in the middle), and I can tell you that this video actually understates just how bad the traffic really is there. We flew in to Cairo Airport and took an Uber into Giza. We then Uber'd around Giza, Cairo, and Memphis and I must say that I have never seen more unsafe and insane traffic in my life. This video gets it right to an extent, but you have to be there to really understand just how barbaric it really is.

"If you getting a new car, enjoy it while you can " its so true here in Egypt...

Mumbai : we don't follow traffic rules here. Cairo : Hold my pyramid and lemme take U-Turn on this single lane road.

See the thing is us Egyptians like to express ourselves through driving😂

As a Egyptian I’m always having a calm day ... Until I go to Tahrir square then I have a panic attack trying to get back home , to and from appointments

I live in London in the Uk and I went on holiday to Egypt, Cairo and I can tell u that I enjoyed the crazy roads, traffic and honking. I miss it so much now that im back.

The Ladies calm soothing voice over this crazy video is perfect....

I love Egypt and its amazing people.

I just landed back in the states after two weeks in Cairo where I rented a car. While it is DAUNTING on first view, it’s actually very easy to navigate once you overcome the initial hecticness of it all. There’s a very good ebb and flow about it all which after 2 weeks behind the wheel, I didn’t encounter any accidents. Not one. There are unwritten rules of the road that everyone knows and follows. Don’t cut people off and become defensive. Rather, understand that you go, than I go. I allow you in, you allow me in later and Vice versa. Once that basic fundamental is obtained, the rest is easy as anywhere else. The laws are just suggestions but follow the code of the streets and you’ll do just fine. Overreacting to anything and everything may just well give you a panic attack lol

I was in kairo last wednesday and the traffic is horrible. In addition there are almost no traffic lights and you can literally do whatever you want. Everybody is honking for no reason. Its medieval, and the whole city is fucked in general, but i saw not a single crash, so it seems to work.

It is exactly that! I lived three years in Cairo and I got used to drive there!

The Accuracy in this is actually shocking

This video just makes me more hungry to get back to Cairo in about 8 weeks. I must be a crazy one but loved the orderly chaos of the streets and roads.

Been living here for about 2 years, I found this video is very TRUE and accurate

I love Egypt and all, but wow the driving is actually crazy and dangerous 😳 I'm never gonna complain in the UK again

I live in Melbourne Australia and have sold 2 elderly Peugeots; a 404 and a 505 and to an Egyptian business man who freights them over to Cairo for spare parts!

This is incredible. Such a different way of life. I totally respect it .

Trust me when i say its way easier than it looks, especially if you’re a half decent driver. It actually becomes fun weaving in and out of traffic, no rules no speed limits. Just you and yiur car. Literally like your playing gta. However sometimes when the traffic comes to a complete stop then you’re screwed and you hate your life. Also this is slowly but surely changing. president el sisi has started widening roads, making traffic lights and generally enforcing traffic law. So maybe in a couple of years we can become normal. Doubt it though..

I've driven in New York, LA, San Fran, and I thought it was a blast! Like a video game! But when we honeymooned in Cairo I had to admit that was the one place that I would never want to drive.

Was there in the summer, incredible place. Great report of it

I am an Egyptian girl, and I say that we drive the car anywhere, in any way, and this is not crowded for us, and we also do not need a traffic light at all😂😂

I've been an Egyptian expat in several countries for 14 years. Because I learnt to drive in Cairo it's hard to learn to follow the rules at first where they're followed. In countries with not-so-strict driving, it's much more fun - like Cairo without traffic!

When I was 16 my family moved from sunny California to Karachi, Pakistan. I was a recently licensed driver in the US, but I learned my way around Karachi quickly! There were really only two rules of the road in Pakistan: If you are bigger, they will get out of your way. If it is bigger than you, get out of its way! As a result, I was also able to negotiate my way around Cairo like a pro...also places like Rome and Paris. What a great time I had!

I've spent 20 years out of my 30 Years old life stuck in traffic!

I just got back from Cairo and it was the most crazy place I've ever been in terms of driving, I thought I'd seen road danger travelling in Asia, south America, south Africa but nothing comes close to the streets and highways here especially at night, every car is trashed, people drive the wrong way up highways, horses, animals and people walking between cars at speed then to top it off vans stopping in the middle of highways people just getting out and crossing the road, first place I've ever seen families of 4 on a single motorbike, I loved the experience just be prepared it's more crazy than the videos make out.

I thought it was glorious! The most fun I've ever had behind the wheel

I've witnessed this first hand. It's unbelievable how everything keeps moving.

I LOVE YOU EGYPT ❤️😂

What an entertaining video :) ...I am Egyptain and I confirm every word you commented very funny and real video.. I can't believe this page still 20K It should be 2M!

I liked that "right to repair" part 😂

well, i'm not an egyptian but i've been living in egypt for the past 10 years and believe me after 10 years Egypt traffic and the way of driving here have never ceased to amaze me up until this day, taking a public transportation is like watching a horror movie especially in downtown cairo and near cities, i'll never be able to drive in here

Oh my goodness, thank Ye kindly for this wonderfully delightful snippet of Egypt’s automobile culture. The info is insider, or someone who lives there. That’s what makes this video soo asmr. P.s Twice mina’s beauty rules okay?!

THIS IS SO ACCURATE!

Loved your video Madame. That's the Cairo I know. I was driving in Cairo in the 1980s and 1990s. I see that nothing has changed. Please, post more videos about life in Cairo.

Good video. Another point to note is that if you drive by western/international driving rules, you might have an accident. When I go back to Egypt in my vacations, I use Uber, or ask a friend/family for a ride. Never drive.

That's insane. But like how they kind of just drive junkers and stuff that people have just put together in a shop. And all the extra parts. I really like it.

I’ve been to Egypt many years ago 😂😂 It’s an amazing country with a lot of energy. But, over population is making live really hard. And btw, it’s much different in Alexandria which i find to be the best Egyptian city. Better weather and nicer ppl with a lot of beaches 🏝 😎

That is so true! I was born and raised in Egypt. Thank god I learned how to drive in the U.S. Now if I ever go to Egypt, I don't think I'll ever drive there.

The highlight in Cairo is crossing the road, a great feeling.

such a nice contrast between that calm and orderly british comment (with a calm jazz background) and the real egyptian chaos. I LOVE IT! 🤣

J Utah’s Cairo video brought me here.. CRAZY!!!

We have a saying in egypt if you can drive here you can drive anywhere 😂😂😂

This is a great way to show the number one rule of driving safe: Be predictible

this is so realistic. im from Cairo btw.

😲 I was planning on visiting Egypt and renting a car there until I saw this video on what traffic is like there. I guess I'll stick with a tour group for transportation.

I'm vacationing in cairo next year and I'm here to see what I'm getting myself into 😁

Not so much nowadays, but when I was growing up in Italy in the 80s, Naples traffic was terrifying. My grandma would make us say a prayer to St. Christopher when crossing the roads without stoplights.

Would've been considerably more illuminating if this lady had actually got behind the wheel and taken to the streets of Cairo

The narrator is awesome. I could listen to her all day long.

Amazing Channel Thinking for a trip To Egypt

If you think of it, this is just an amazing 2D Tetris game - 2D like in blocks coming from two directions

Awesome video 📹!!!

The rule for me when in Cairo I didn't drive lol...hired a driver, said a prayer and held on for dear life. Most of the time with eyes squeezed tight. Saw another comment about Germany. I lived there as well and had a German License. While driving rules were no big deal and pretty straightforward they have SOOOOOO many traffic signs OMG. And of course they are all in German or Deutsche. I made sure to study the hell out of those and passed test on first try. Though I knew plenty of Americans that thought they could wing it SMH and ended up testing 2 oe 3 times until passing. Then on to a England where learned ro drive "on wrong side" of road lol. Driving in America is a breeze after all these other places. American Driving Rules are the easiest you'll find IMO. Last crazy Driving experience was in Kyrgyzstan. Pretty much same as Egypt where anything goes, no lanes, lots of animals in the roads, no parking and self appointed parking attendants exactly as described here in this video. You can support an entire family on a months wages as an attendant in Bishkek which is the Capital. Makes you appreciate American roads a whole lot more!

You did soooo good, This is the Way, i love it, why i have no qlue.

I read some of comments and this had been posted 3 yrs ago but comments said still happening and it seems to me that this video still much older than 2017, and i bursted into laughter when i saw i car changing his route simple as that😲😲😲 i really enjoyed their weirderness still laughing🤣😂😁

I will never ever complain about the traffic here in Kalamazoo MI every again .-. This is wild I’ve never seen cars parked so tightly.

زحمة يا دنيا زحمة هههه كل الحب للمصريين أخوكم من المغرب 💖

Just got back from Egypt. This is so true.

Ur videos r superb.. Hehehe thx

recently saw this in live action during 2 weeks there... it was wild

awesome video! hilarious!

The way they drive in Egypt is the same as the economics in the USA. Just me first . . .

First it's good work , second I'm Egyptian and if you want title for this video there is one title you can put it on description ( road as a hell )

Amazing storytelling

A genius way of taking film from the typical congested traffic jarm of Cairo city.

Great video👍

The accuracy!!

extremely well said

Pedestrians and drivers actually have alot of respect for each other. Drivers respect that everyone shares the road

oh man i love ciaro, i saw a lada there once a pretty rusty one but a lada

this channel so amazing i subs you

It's really surprising👊👊👊

Any news about Egypt 2020... :) You are welcome

I can testify to crossing the street as a pedestrian; it's probably the most dangerous daily activity in Egypt.

When we were in Cairo our driver explained Cairo traffic law: Green means go, yellow means go faster, red means go like hell.

Wow!

Crazy!!!!

The video is great at "showing", but the uploader and many commentators fail at "explaining" the most crucial principle behind it: Cairo traffic IS chaotic no doubt, but it's organized chaos. (I'll leave it for you to figure out what organized chaos means). We Egyptian drivers understand this, but when foreigners drive and assume it's only chaos, it can be catastrophic. We Egyptian pedestrians understand the principles of organized chaotic crossing: Look before you make the decision to cross. Then, give your back to the drivers. They will slow down. When a foreigner imitates us, but look at the drivers, they will step on gas and make you run for your life! When foreigners some how understand these principles, believe me these find it FUN to drive and cross streets!!!

Their order is "disorder".

Dono, in rush time it’s almost the same everywhere!

Kinda reminds me of drivers here in Winnipeg, Canada where I live....

There’s a lot of Daewoos! I used to own one XD

I was there January 2022 and besides the traffic hell, the air is VERY polluted

i love cairo

I often said that driving in London is fine, driving in Paris is a bit stressful. Driving in Naples - if I had to do it, I probably could - when we were there, we got taxis or public transport. But driving in Cairo - never! And I have been driving for 40 years!

You must visit cairo this period and see the difference 😃

This isn’t a holiday destination to relax for sure

Starting now I will never complain in Montréal traffic 😩

Me crossing those streets: Sabr Sabr Sabr😂😂😂 i spend 10 days in Egypt in Old Ramsis and it was the best time every. I loved every bit Alhamdulillah and crossing was great I still laugh about it and cant wait to return Ameen.

Egypt is very much similar to India. Just the streets are cleaner a bit and traffic is not that bad.

Cairo street crossing should be an Olympic sport!

This looks kind of fun

I have personally experienced this and I was foolish enough to rent a car. Needless to say I was only brave enough to drive the rental car to the hotel and I just parked it there for the duration of my stay. When it was time to go back to airport, I gave myself 7 hours of lead time and I needed one hour to find the rental return place. If you are going to Cairo, Just get an unlocked phone and get a SIM card when you get there and use Uber.

4:09 100% won't break in pieces right after you leave the ''dealership''