Merghany Street

Merghany street is a very long street inside Cairo. It's also notorious for housing some of the most expensive and exotic cars in Egypt. Egyptians have Friday off, so every Thursday at midnight, many people gather around with their expensive cars to host races, drifts, and other competitions. And like I said, this street is long and the effect of it being long, it's busy as well. Or it can get very busy. However, all the drifters and races on Thursday night don't care about that at all. My cousin told me that some of the people who go voluntarily take their cars and park them in such a way so that people can't pass through the street. This makes the other drivers re-think their routes every Thursday night.

So one Thursday night I really wanted to stick around and watch some of the drifts and races that occur their, however we had no car at the moment and my cousin said that it would be difficult to stick around. He also said that if you don't have a car, you can't stay. So that night we were on our way home from some other place and the bus we were in went on Merghany street to get to its destination. It was a little before midnight so the street was open, however some of the drifters and races were already their and their cars were parked. It was a very amusing scene. It seemed like it belonged in a movie or something. So it was extremely unfortunate that I couldn't see any racing or drifts, however I found this video online that took place on that street. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z2QH8xufS8&feature=related.My cousin told me that this video is a very good representation of an actual Thursday night on that street.

Now, the reason why I put this post was because I one night I asked my cousin where the nice cars were found in the country and specifically told me this street.