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'''Leipzig''' is a the biggest city in the [[Germany|German]] ''Bundesland'' [[Saxony]], and is famous as best for its alternative city! you have to go in scene. Check out Plagwitz, Südvorstadt , the "Eisenbahnstraße" (most dangerous street in Germany according to some newspapers) and Connewitz!if you're there.

== Hitching Out ===== North towards [[Berlin]], [[Magdeburg]], South towards [[München]] =Hitchhiking out ==

;First optionTake the bus #131 from the city center === North towards ''Dölzig'' and get out at ''Holländische Mühle'', one stop before the ''Nova Eventis'' center. This spot is some meters before the direct ramp onto the [[A9 (Germany)|A9Berlin]]. Try to find your ride here , South towards [[Berlin]] or [[Munich|München]]!{{Ade|9}} ===

==== Option 2 ====It's also possible to get to the spot described above with tram #7 in direction ''Böhlitz-Ehrenberg''. Get out at the tram stop ''Georg-Schwartz-Strasse/Merseburger Strasse''. From there, walk back some 10m towards the main road and walk right towards the ''Aral'' petrol station, across the road from which you can catch a ride to the A9. Follow If you don't like the spot, follow the road for 200m until you passed a ''Lidl'' supermarket, and after that some meters further you'll find a bus stop (''Lindenau Friedhof''). From there you can easily hitchhike a ride towards ''Dölzig'' and/or the highwaymotorway. Make sure to get out at the last traffic lights before the highwaymotorway. Just behind the traffic lights, thereThere's a small bay bus stop where cars you can stop hitchhike easily. A sign might be useful. Hitchhiking ~800m further directly at the [[on-ramp]] is pretty dangerous, there's no place for cars to stop and traffic passes by pretty fast.

;Third option==== Option 3 ====There is also You can take a nice petrol station on train from the B2Main Station, Leipzig-Gohlis, it's the last petrol station for people coming from the city centerLeipzig-Coppiplatz, Leipzig-Möckern or Leipzig-Leutzsch (?Regional Express "RB")that goes to "Weißenfels". Take tram 14 Get off at "Rückmarsdorf". From there you walk north straight up to ''Messegelände''. Go back in direction of the previous tram stop (big street ''Alte Dübener Landstraße''), cross that leads to the Street ({{Ade|9}}. It''Messe-Allee'') s about 300 m and the way is intuitive. You can either start from there or follow the bike pathstreet westwards for about 500 m where you find a car seller for Renault. It underpasses the railway There is plenty of space to stop and pick you finally get up. If people only go to ''Zschortauer Straße''Dölzig take the lift. Turn left, there The spot at the back entrance to the petrol station Busstaion Südstraße (first option) is almost immediately on the rightslightly better. [http://mapsThe great advantage of this option is that you get to Rückmarsdorf very fast.googleEspecially if you live close to one of the trainstops mentioned above you're ready to start hitkchhiking in some 10 minutes (vs.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Merkurpromenade+%405127 minutes busride from the Main Station in Bus #131).398124,+12.395444&daddr=Alte+D%C3%BCbener+Landstra%C3%9Fe+%4051.394559,+12.394547+toRemember that the train only goes once an hour (March 2015:Graf-Zeppelin-Ring+%4051.391742,+12.393601+toFrom the Main Station at xx:51.385792,12.390143&hl=en&geocode=7430204521375212132,51.398124,12.395444%3B7331407810391153862,51.394559,12.394547%3B3946222946419670169,51.391742,12.393601%3B&mra=mi&mrcr=2&mrsp=3&sz=15&dirflg=w&sll=51.387263,12.394252&sspn=0.019845,0.046821&ie=UTF8&t=47 h&z=15 Google Maps] doesn't know about the bike path but you can see it in satellite viewfrom track 6).

=== East North towards [[DresdenBerlin]] ===and [[File:Hitching spot leipzig.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Spot in Leipzig described in Option 2 for hitchhiking North or SouthMagdeburg]]Take the Tram #15 from the city center towards ''Meusdorf'' and get out at the last station. Go 250 Meters further to the next bus stop. This is the best spot to /[[DresdenHamburg]] over A38 and A14/A4.{{Ade|14}} ===

It's incredibly easy There is a brilliant spot to blackride in Leipzigask people for lifts at an "Aral"-petrol station which is the last one before the Autobahn {{Ade|14}} that also leads onto the {{Ade|9}} to Berlin.

Take tram 16 with or without a 2,40 Euro-Ticket in the direction of Messegelände and get off at "Hornbach Baumarkt" from here it's a 15min walk to the station but it's worth it. Walk in the same direction as the tram and take an immediate right onto "Dübener Landstraße" along the parking lot of the big hardware store. After passing the bridge over the B2 it becomes Nathusiusstraße. Keep walking straight until you reach Ztschortauer Straße where you turn left and walk another 300 metres until you see the "Aral"-petrol station on your left.  Asking people for a lift towards Berlin on the {{Ade|9}} or towards Magdeburg on the {{Ade|14}} (which is also the way to go for Hamburg) usually works just fine here.The first rest stop going north from here will be '''[[:de:Köckern Ost|Köckern Ost]]''' on the {{Ade|9}}, that isn't too far. On the {{Ade|14}}, it is '''[[:de:Plötzetal Ost|Plötzetal Ost]]''' which is past Halle. Most of the A14 traffic goes to Halle so you might want to get the ride anyway and get off at the non-gas-station rest area that is on the A14, before Halle but after the branch-off to Berlin. === Overnight East towards [[Dresden]] {{Ade|14}} {{Ade|38}} ===There are several youth hostels [[File:Hitching spot leipzig.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Spot in Leipzigdescribed in Option 2 for hitchhiking North or South]] ==== Option 1 ====Take a tram to "Permoser Str./ Torgauer Str." (3/3E direction "Taucha"; or Bus 90 direction "Paunsdorfcenter"; check here: www.lvb.de/timetable). You walk some 50 meters along "Permoser Straße" (the one without tram tracks) and start hitchhiking from there. Drivers already see you from the traffic light and can stop easily on the "white lines". While heading east you'll also find gas stations to ask people directly. ==== Option 2 ====Take a tram to the stop "Paunsdorfer Alle/Permoser Strasse". Show a sign saying "Dresden" and find a good spot on the street towards east which is close to the motorway junction already. There is one are mixed reports about a mile out of this spot. ==== Option 3 ====Take the Tram #15 or #2 from the city. Itcenter towards ''Meusdorf''s easily walkable, just head and get out left from at the train last station's main entrance, which is called Meusdorf. Go 250 Meters further to the next bus stop. This is the best spot to [[Dresden]] via {{Ade|38}} and follow {{Ade|14}}/{{Ade|4}}. === Option 4 ===Onramp to the road round to highway A14, at the rightcrossing of B6 and A14. Keep walking past a head shopThere is no sidestrip, and take a leftbut it is barely possible for cars to stop. [[File:Tzuiop9c onramp Leipzig A14xB6.jpg|thumb|Onramp to A14 at the crossing with B6, east-end of Permoserstraße]]  ==== Option 5: service area Muldental ====In direction Dresden you then have a service area called "Muldental" since a lot of people turn of before Dresden so that you can use also the rather local traffic (to Grimma or further). === West towards [[Erfurt]], [[Cologne|Köln]], [[Belgium]] {{Ade|4}} ===[[File:CraigChristmasHitch.jpg|thumb|220px|right |Santa Claus [[User:Halt, Stop! Reudnitz kommt.|Craig]] hitching bus stop near ''Leipzig West'' ({{Ade|9}}).]]When heading to Belgium highway number 4 is a decent option. There are no comfortable ways (other than luck) to get on a street that runs parallelthe highway to Kassel {{Ade|38}}. Keep walking Though if there's somebody taking you to the end of {{Ade|38}} make sure you get a long lift. There is only one service station [[:de:Rohnetal Nord|Rohnetal Nord]] before reaching the road, then turn left over {{Ade|7}} near [[Göttingen]]/[[Kassel]]. You can take bus 131 from Main Station (Leipzig Hauptbahnhof) or Merseburgerstrasse that will take you all the bridge over way close to the train tracks{{Ade|9}} (alight at B181/Dölzig). After At the bus stop youcan easily get a lift in all directions. All day long heavy traffic yay ;-) [[User:Halt, Stop! Reudnitz kommt.|Craig]]'ve walked over s waiting times average at 15 mins for direction [[Cologne]] (West) or [[Nuremberg]] (South), 20 mins direction [[Berlin]] (North). First you have to go south on the train tracks{{Ade|9}}, use a sign "A9 Süd", there's an interesting a gas station on the highway 30 km south from Leipzig called "Osterfeld". There you can find a ride going West on the {{Ade|4}} . Ask for people going at least to Erfurt. The only service area with gas station on the {{Ade|4}} before Erfurt is called "Eichelborn" and is located BEYOND Jena.The on-ramp on the side away from Leipzig is slightly more spacious (but not spacious) and there was a little village made up of wendy housesmore traffic when [[User:Guaka|guaka]] was hitching from there on Thursday around noon.  Right after getting onto the {{Ade|4}} there's a restaurant (but no gas station) called "Teufelstal" that's okay during the day ([[User:Guaka|guaka]] found a long ride to almost Giessen from there). Walk  == Hitching In ==When coming through thisthe {{Ade|14}} it is fairly easy to get off at Leipzig Nord-Ost or Leipzig-Ost, heading where you have possibilities for the driver to turn around and the tram is within 1 km reach. If coming from south-east, lot of drivers go in via {{Ade|38}}. In both cases you can use the directions given in the far cornertwo optionjs for getting onto {{Ade|14}} direction Dresden. Turn rightOtherwise, and walk parallel with options are the airport where a train tracksis going regularly into the city. You should she an old pub in  If traveling the middle of an HLM type housing estate{{Ade|9}}, you can best get off at Leipzig-West. The driver can go off to "Einkaufszentrum", then let you out at Nova Eventis. Make There you can easily get a car to the center just hitchhike anywhere near the exit for Leipzig at the parking with a note of itsign "LE".  Hitchhiker [[User:Halt, because it does fantastic foodStop! Reudnitz kommt.|Craig]] would rather recommend to ask drivers going off to ''Leipzig''. Carry The road directions are not separated on that side anymore and there is a perfect spot (bus stop) for about another 200 yardshitching into the city plus drivers can easily make u-turn going back to the highway. [[Korn|Korn]] mentions, then hang that you can catch a leftride from here even in the night pretty easy. The youth hostel If you get off earlier and don´t want to walk that far, there is also a huge keeping area on the right side, after you left, just the highway and underpass the bridge. It is also the first possible point for cars to make a u-turn and get back on a small service roadthe highway.

* fine is 40 60 EUR, payable by bank transfer in about 10 days

* You can validate existing tickets in both trams and bussesbuses, the machines ''beep'' when you do so (''check if there is a ticket stamping machine in the rear of the bus, AFAIR that's usually the case but better make sure'')* Inside most trams, there's a ticket machine that gives you a stamped ticket (''just hanging around there won't serve as excuse if you're controledget busted'')

* If you did've got an unstamped ticket, you can (and should) argue that you just forgot to stamp didn't know about validating it before and have a valid ticked nonetheless - the tourist act sometimes usually works * After 20:00, you usually need to get in buses at the front and show your ticket to the bus driver == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki =={{nomadwiki}}