Dunedin

Dunedin is a small coastal student city on New Zealand's South Island.

The best way to get to Christchurch or north is to walk up Pine Hill Road to the top to where the highway starts. There is space to pull over, and cars are travelling slowly after coming up the hill. It is very easy from here.

It's a little difficult hitching out of Dunedin because on the way out of the city there aren't any good places to catch a ride (as there are no places for cars to pull over). Also most of the traffic in the city area isn't likely to be going very far. The trick is to get out of the main city area and on to the state highways where there's lots of space for a driver to see you and pull over to pick you up. You could take a taxi to get out of the city but it'll cost between $20-30 dollars (which would be more than half the bus fair to get to whichever city you're heading towards).

Hitching the Otago Peninsula to the Albatross Centre or Sandfly Bay is pretty straight forward. You could start On Portobello Road at Andersons Bay or catch a bus to Portobello. From there, it should be super easy to catch a single ride to the Albatross Centre, or try Highcliff Road if going to Sandfly Bay. Later on, you return rides will be a bit more sparse.

South
If you're traveling south you could take a bus to Mosgiel and simply walk to the highway. It usually won't take more than 20-30 minutes to get a ride.
 * krischoon: I went to the end of Cumberland St, there is a fuel station you can ask there or stand on the right side of the St but for me both options didn't went well so I walked on to the motorway and stood on the lawn. It's a quite dangerous place but I god a right there.

North
Going North, towards Christchurch you might have some luck when you're still in the city.
 * Guaka and amylin got a direct ride to Christchurch within less than 30 minutes.
 * Alan Liefting got a ride within minutes on Great King St just before the Pine Hill Rd intersection. (map)

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