Show me the way to go home!

Approaching Kuwait City (Capital)

Soor Street

Those men n their machines

Summer's upon us and those cool dudes and their mean machines are out on the roads.

Kuwait City

This is Kuwait City.

Traffic woes

Clicked this pic on my way home from work. It's not as bad as it looks, though. We were still moving at 20Kph!! ;-)

To answer Red Ink (based on his comment), although this is the way to the Airport, it is not always busy. Kuwait has a lot of traffic on her roads in the morinings, mid-afternoon (lunch crowd) and evenings (8:30 pm).

Hyderabad Daily Photo wanted to know why some cars have yellow/orange number plates. These are Taxis. The Police car number plates are black. Ordinary folks like us have white number plates.

Most signs are bilingual. Inspite of that, I manage to successfully get lost very often. The speed at which we have to go (minimum 80kph) doesn't give us much of a chance to change our minds or our lanes.

Many institutes have Arabic classes. There are no government programs, as far as I know, that teach Arabic on a free for all basis.

Lorry ride

Despite extreme temperatures, very often we see workers in the rear of a half lorry, bearing the extreme heat or cold, on their way to work. When I clicked this pic it was a `bearable' 38 deg. Cent at 5:30 in the evening.

Ahmadi Expressway

View of the Ahmadi Expressway from my 9th floor office window. Still a lot of empty spaces available in the city!