Traffic and Turn Signals

Last night we went from Cairo to Sharm el-Sheik via the tunnel under the Suez canal. The traffic on the road once we passed the canal was crazy. I have never seen anything like it. All of the traffic was from people going from the Sinai Peninsula back to the African part of Egypt. The problem was that due to the slow trafic going that direction, a number of cars decided to drive on the wrong side of the road causing traffic to stop going both ways!


I also found the use of turn signals and hazzard lights amuzing. Drivers here use turn signals for curvs in the road, even if going straight isn't an option. It also seems that the turn signal is used to let another driver know of ones position when passing in opposite directions on a two lane highway. So, if I were driving on a two lane highway and I saw a car appraoching me, I would put on my left turn signal, even though I have no intention of turning left or changing lanes. When a used its breaks to slow down as it appraoched an area of slower traffic, the driver put on the hazzard lights, as if break lights didn't exist.