Austria

Austria is a member state of the European Union as well as of the Schengen Agreement. It is a good country for hitchhiking, with fabulous views of the surrounding Alps and small lakes. While hitchhiking by motorway you can easily “hop” from city to city - ramps are usually easy to get to and easy to hitch from. Good places are service stations, too.

Austria is surrounded by Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Slovenia, Liechtenstein and Italy - to any of these countries one can get easily by hitchhiking.

People in Austria speak German (in some parts locally also Slovene, Croatian and Hungarian) but if you are not a German speaker you won't be in big trouble since almost every Austrian speaks at least basic English.

Border crossings

 * Hegyeshalom-Nickelsdorf border crossing with Hungary

From Germany
If you're coming from Germany and plan to come to / pass by Autria, There are two main points to cross the border : Passau and Salzburg
 * Most of the traffic going through Passau is heading East to Linz, Vienna, Budapest
 * Most of the traffic going through Salzburg is heading South to Trieste, Italy, Slovenia, Balkans

isin: Western Europe

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