Urban and City

Back In Time

There is a famous town in Egypt - of which I sadly forgot the name - that operates traffic mainly with horses. This is surely a tourist attraction tactic, but either way, they are famous for it. The drivers of the carriages usually shout at each other a lot as well which is just part of it - and if you are a tourist, you will easily think they are about to start a fight any second now.
We chose not to use horse carriages. This is a decision that anyone has to make for themselves, but man ... imagine 40 degrees C. We saw horses that stood in the sun, with no shade, and no water, for hours. HOURS. Most of them had clear open injuries. I couldn't even stand in the sun for more than 5 minutes, so we decided not to support this if we can avoid it and take a taxi from the shore to one of the temples there. Many cars in Egypt are quite old - and so was our taxi. I mean, just look at it! Big thumbs up to our driver - in a city that mainly has horses on the road, he managed quite well to navigate in between them. Granted, he shouted and screamed at them to make space (I think, I didn't understand of course) - made me think the horn was broken and this was his way of announcing his presence in the street.

Phill

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