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== Hitchhiking out ==
This city is one of the most conservative cities in Turkey and has a reputation for it. Many non-local Turks will swear that you will not even have a slight chance for a lift around Konya, but that’s not true. Instead, this is one of the places in Turkey where you will be offered quickest lifts, even if you don’t have a conservative appearance according to local standards (e.g. a male having long hair and an untidy beard).
=== Northeast towards [[Aksaray]], [[Cappadocia]], [[Nevşehir]] ===
You need to reach the D300 towards Aksaray; the next big city after Konya in that direction. You can take the tramway a get out in "Otogar" stop. From there, walk like 10 minutes towards east until the next roundabout (close to Novaland Outlet mall). From there you can catch a ride to Cappadocia easily. Some drivers are using that road to go to Ankara, but they can drop you to the junction of the D300 road and from there Aksaray is straight away.
=== East towards [[Eregli]], [[Adana]] ===
The only thing is, here a massive military zone starts for further 2-3 km, enclosed by a wire fence and on that corner two armed soldiers were on duty and we stood right next to them on the other side of the fence. They didn't have a problem with our hitchhiking and wished us a nice trip, only asked us to move so we wouldn't be in their zone surveillance camera (on the fence). The cars were passing fast and it wasn't that great, but after 45 min (for boy+girl couple) we had a ride direct to Alanya.
If you weren't lucky here and/or the soldiers' presence bothered you, I guess you could take one of the passing minibuses to go past the military zone, but I'm not sure where exactly they'd bring you.
== Public transportation ==
