Rules of the road

We pretty much took taxis everywhere we went, as the days went on I became a lot less tense about the way they drive. I saw a couple of traffic lights at super busy intersections, but mostly there are no stop lights, stop signs, yield signs, etc. People just go, whoever gets there first or has a bigger car gets to go, I guess those are the rules. No one seems to get angry like they do in the states. Drivers honk their horn a lot, but it is just to let the other car know that he is 2 inches away from him in his blind spot. When driving the taxi drivers pretty much make up their own lanes. So a 4 lane road in the states would be a 6 or 7 lane road in Iran. They kind of just drive wherever the car fits. It is also perfectly acceptable for motorcycles to drive the wrong way in traffic or even on the sidewalks. I almost got hit a couple of times on the sidewalk by motorcycles, it scared me a little, but no one else seemed to bat an eye. It is just normal life there. I kind of like it. Shiraz is a big city and the house we stayed at was at one end of town, so every taxi ride we went on took 20 to 30 minutes. On average the taxi ride costed between 2 and 3 U.S. dollars, pretty reasonable.

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