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Close to '''Edirne''' you'll find border checkpoints towards [[Bulgaria]] (20km) and [[Greece]] (7km).

Expect a high rate of traffic there. If you arrive here with a truck, it should be no problem to walk by foot over the border! At the end of both sides you can try to hitch a truck towards [[Istanbul]] or [[Svilengrad]], it's very easy!

For more information, check out [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenz%C3%BCbergang_Kapitan_Andreewo-Kap%C4%B1kule this] German Wikipedia article about the checkpoint.

This checkpoint –''Pazarkule''- is in a walking distance from downtown Edirne. Walk to the direction of Karaağaç (pronounced ''kaa-raa-aa-aach'', signs aren’t very common, so you may have to ask someone. Don’t walk to Pazarkule direction shown by signs out of city centre, they actually directs vehicles to a longer road around the city, but you may thumb on them). After a walk for about 25-30 minutes, you’ll pass two long and historical bridges very near each other (spanning over Tundza (tr: ''Tunca'') and Maritsa (tr: ''Meriç'') respectively) and then soon you’ll see a sign showing the direction to ''Batı Trakya'' (Western Thrace) and ''Selanik'' ([[Thessaloniki]]). At that spot, you are about 4 km away from the checkpoint and you may either keep walking or start thumbing. It’s not clear whether you can walk or have to be inside a vehicle when crossing the actual border though (they don’t allow pedestrians to cross the border at checkpoint Ipsala, another border crossing between Turkey and Greece some hundred kilometres down the river).

It's no problem to walk onto the highway and try hitchhiking along the hard shoulder. Just take care of drivers overtaking cars on the right instead of the left side.

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