Public Transport

We went to our nearby muhata (bus station) in Souq (market) Bahry (suburb)... found the right bus: the drivers wait, their buses lined up down the street for about a half mile; the doorman to the bus stands outside and yells as fast as he can the name of the buses destination... ie: Bahry,bahry,bahry,bahry... making an almost undefinable noise... and with about 100 buses with different destinations--well, the place isn't quiet! No problem... Returning home to Bahry, however, was an educational process for us. Standing on a busy street, multiple lanes of cars and buses... we couldn't tell where the buses were headed. So we proceeded to stop EVERY bus we saw, made sense, which was A LOT. Then we would yell--as they yelled their destination, really fast, almost unintelligibly--our destination right back... About the 10th bus someone explained, a la charades, that each destination has a hand signal that the doorman waves out the window as he drives by... Wave one way- across town, another way- across the river, point down- downtown, etc. All that to say, how funny it must be to see 2 kawajas (foreigners) frantically yelling and waving at buses... good times!