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'''Tbilisi''' (or Tblisi, Tiflis) is the capital of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] and the country's largest city.

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One The best way out of Tbilisi depends where you currently are in the city. Basically anywhere along the road north from Tbilisi will work well for hitchhiking point is . Bus routes are on google maps but marshrutkas are not , so if you haven't learned how to read Georgian yet, you might find it easiest to take a bus to the spot. Not far from Tbilisi, the ''Didube'' bus stationroad splits, near the statue of David with one direction going towards Kutaisi and Batumi and the Builder on horsebackother way towards Gudauri and Russia.

However, 1. A great hitchhiking north might be easier if you take spot is about 200 meters after Tbilisi Mall. Look for the hitchwiki sticker on a sign post just before the gas station. There's plenty of space for a car to pull over and everybody driving past that point is going out of the city. It'marshrutkas quite common to encounter other hitchhikers here but even so, it's Georgia, you won't wait long. Several marshrutkas go to Tbilisi Mall and it' s even possible to hitchhike there from near Didube metro station towards Mtskheta and tell in the driver city. Look for marshrutkas 44, 51, 87, 60, 116, 117, or bus 121 to let Tbilisi Mall. If you out when 're really in a hurry, taxis to the mall are 10-15 lari from the S1 national road splits off city center. You can take Marshrutka 121 for example from Didube metro station. Its very easy from all over the Mtshketa road (see photo)city.

The number 11 marshrutka goes all 2. Another spot is accessible by bus 14 from the way from Tsereteli center (Rustaveli metro station , among others). The bus is very slow but also very cheap (50 tetri in 2017). Get off at the stop Agmashenebeli Ave #12 (stop ID 1179), continue walking forward across the big intersection, and hitchhike anywhere. There is still some local traffic at this point but nearly everyone going out of the city also drives by here, so you won't wait long. Make sure not to miss the stop or else the bus will turn around and you'll be faced with the choice to walk quite a ways or run across the quite busy highway (well, sometimes standing in the end median of the cityhighway with no clear way to the other side is a good way to get cars to stop for you....your choice).  3. One hitchhiking point is about 2km from the ''Didube'' metro/bus station, near where the highway joins statue of David the Tbilisi BypassBuilder on horseback. Get off at This spot is along the same road as the last stopprevious two, by just closer to the turning city (meaning you have more taxis and city traffic, but it's very easy to get to Jvari monasteryDidube from anywhere in the city).

Another option is 4. If you're going to get Didube anyways, you can reduce the walking distance to Metro Station Sarajishvili 0 by taking a marshrutka towards Mtskheta and walk over tell the bridge across driver to let you out when the highway to one of S1 national road splits off from the petrol stations Mtshketa road (you can see both photo). Or take marshrutka 11, which goes all the way from Tsereteli metro station to the end of them from the bridge) and start hitchhiking from therecity, near where the highway joins the Tbilisi Bypass. Expect some weird looks from Get off at the guys who work therelast stop, and they might even tell you by the turn to get the hell outJvari monastery. Most Both of them these routes also pass spot #1 (above), so it may be easier to get off there if you don't have GPS and/or don't speak or understand English which will make it hard Georgian/Russian (just tell the driver to make clear what you're doing. But stop when you're feeling luckypassing the Tbilisi Mall, go for it! <!-- Doesnwhich you can't seem illegal, and insensitive, why? {Prinomiss) -->.

Second option:Take bus 37 (direction airport) from a station in Rustaveli ave. near Mc Donaldstowards the Airport. The bus leaves the city and enters goes east on the Kakheti highway after some time. After some time on the highway the bus driver will turn right onto Europe Street (at that point you should see the road to the Airport). At the highway intersection there is a big statue on a big column on the left window of the bus). Get out at the first stop and walk back to the big road Kakheti Highway (about 500 metres). you You can hitch there or walk for 5 mins to the traffic light and a gas station. Good luck! (waiting This highway is quite busy with cars. Waiting time: 3 guys - 20 minscould be long, because of the volume of traffic, with many cars not going directly east. The further down the Highway you get/walk the better.) 

Hitching out towards Take metro till Isani. When you leave the metro cross the South is easy as piestreet and head right to the south. Follow this road until a big round about after maybe 10 minutes. Hitch Cross the street from anywhere in the city center or take a Marshrutka right and follow the street which leads over the river with the bride. At the traffic light you cross the the street to the left and than to your right side of the traffic, that you reach the beginning of the highway. You see on the right side the green highway sign. There after the crossroad about 100 meters it's possible to stop cars. The street is S4 and don'Ortachala'' bus stationt give the huge sign attention before the bride. You might have must get a car at the highway next to take another short the river.  If you are not lucky and get an direct ride after 6 or 7 kilometers there is the first round about which spilts the way to Azerbaijan border to where the roads to left (Rustavi ) and Merneulito the right (Marneuli) to the Armenian border. Both borsercrossings are walkable, Armenia, Azerbaijan split up. Donyou don't listen to anybody who tells you that you cannot hitch out of need a ride which crosses the borders. To Armenia it is the city in this direction or out of Merneuliroad S6. It's very very easy!

In June 2015, there was a big landslide about 2km down the road from Tskneti, which completely destroyed a part of the road Busses 10 and wiped away the forest around it. As of September 2015, nothing has been repaired. From Tbilisi, 106 should take the road towards Kojori instead. To get out of the city center, you can take any of the buses going to Mtatsminda Park and get off where the road splits to Kojori. If the Tskneti road is repaired, which should take a long time considering the extent of the destruction, where you can get on buses 34 or 82 to get you 'll be far enough from the city center to Tskneti. == Public transport == Tbilisi has a metro system with two lines. To enter it, you must first buy a smart card from the ticket office (2 Lari as of August 2012) and then load value onto it. Swipe the smart card at the turnstiles. You can also get the 2 Lari deposit back when you hand the card in again, but you need to give back also the receipt that you got from the ticket office. From metro stations one can reach further parts of the city by city buses or ''marshrutkas''hitchhike comfortably.

You can travel by city bus without buying a ticketAnother possible starting point is Tskneti (Busses 81 & 34), but in this case you must be careful. The bus controllers always wear yellow jackets or t-shirts. Buy a ticket when you see them on bus stop (in any case they will not give you a fine if where you buy a ticket after their request) or just stand next to the ticket buying machine looking through your pockets until they get could check out.* they controlled me almost everytime i took the bus but actually they dont pay too much attention to the ticket. just buy one and show them remains of the same all 2015 Tskneti land slide on the time. it workedway, which seem to have become somewhat of a local attraction.