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=== Direction [[Budapest]], [[Varazdin]] and [[Cakovec]] ===
Take bus number 276 till 2 stations before the final station. Ask for the church in Ivanja Reka, people will know it, you should get out there. There will be a small road which leads to the on ramp, ask people for which one it is. You should walk till the traffic lights, the turn right and you already see the place. After the lights you should walk about 300 meters and you can start hitching there with a sign VZ for example. Works like a charm, someone waited there for less than 10 minutes.
Take tram #5 or #17 from the centre of Zagreb towards the ''Precko''. Notice that the ride takes a lot of time, 45 minutes at least. In ''Precko'', exit the tram and walk left. You'll see a street that turns right. Take this street and walk 5 minutes till you get to the main street ''Ljubljanska Avenija'' (also called ''Zagrebacka Avenija''). Cross this street in front of the ''Konzum'' supermarket and turn left. You will see a small bus station, this is your spot. However most people commute from this point. Best is to hitchhike from there with a SLO sign. Don't take rides that don't take you at least to the border - There is no good places to hitchhike further down the road. From the border crossing itself it's relatively easy to get a good ride, even as far as to Austria.
On a [[Sunday]] Erga and [[User:Guaka|guaka]] waited way to long. Not a single car stopped in two hours time, and at the gas stations everyone with space pretended not to go anywhere near Slovenia (West or North). Two Belgian guys didn't manage to get a ride in the same period, also trying in different spots in the area ([[User:Guaka|guaka]] somehow convinced the West Gate bus driver to also pick them up). Use the West Gate option if you're simply heading to Austria, find another solution if you're heading towards Ljubljana...
=== North, direction [[Maribor]], [[Graz]], [[Vienna]] ===
From the Črnomerec and Ljubljanica bus terminal there's a free bus (red or white color) to West Gate shopping center which is adjactent adjacent to pay-tolls toll station [http://westgate.com.hr/index.php?lan=cr&id=220], see also [http://maps.google.com/?q=zagreb&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=City+of+Zagreb,+Croatia&ll=45.874518,15.829003&spn=0.009815,0.02459&t=h&z=16 Google Maps], the toll place station is very close to the shopping center, you can see it from the parking lot where the bus arrives. But you will have to cross a bit of water. Don't try this in the dark. Look for one of the areas with stones covered by metal or just walk about 300 mts metre in opposite direction of the shopping mall and you will find a little bridge, handy! then come back to the pay tollstation.
If you're heading to [[Slovenia]] or further you'll have to make it to the [[Macelj-Kozminci border crossing]], from where you can easily get rides far into [[Germany]].
You better forget about trying the Precko option (towards Ljubljana), Erga and [[User:Guaka|guaka]] waited for about 2 hours, asking people, with signs (''Macelj'', ''Maribor'', SLO) and without sign. Fortunately the free bus to the West Gate center also goes from this above spot.
[[User:T0ma5|t0ma5]] was hitchhiking here in January 2011 and he got a ride all the way to Vienna in about 20min.
== Resources ==
=== Sleeping ===
For decent camping, take tram #6 from the central train station to Crnomerec, continue walking down Ilica a hundred meters metres or so, turn Right on Kustosijanca, and walk up this street for two hundred meters past an old train trestle. There is easy access to trails in the woods and decent places to camp without being disturbed.
=== Internet access ===
Club Mama, 'net.culture.club' is an open space with a cool library of technical, cultural, and revolutionary books, wifi, and frequent talks and skillshares. Ulica Petra Preradovićeva 18, at the back of a square between buildings. http://www.mi2.hr/
Optima Telekom centar, Savska 5 has free Internet access for advertising purposes so you can just come in say hello to people who work three there and go on the Internet. There They are mostly friendly and you can surf as long as you want. You can get to that location by taking tram 2,4,or 9 from Main train station (glavni kolodvor) and make sure to get out on Vodnikova and walk few meters metres until you are on Savska ulica. Then go left and after 1-2 minutes you will see Optima Telekom center on your right side.
The National Library of Croatia is approximately one km south of the train station. Open until 8PM 20:00 on weekdays, 3PM 15:00 on Saturday, it provides power outlets, wifi, and access to public computers.
=== Public transport ===
=== Eating ===
Zagreb is full of students who have iksica (electronic card with which they can eat whole lunch witch soup, meat and juice for less than a euro). So if you want you can go to studentski centar (savska 25) by taking trams 2., 4.or 9 from main train station (Glavni kolodvor) to Vodnikova cross the street and go right for 5-6 minutes until you reach big open space with caffe cafe bar and lots of people moving around. Just ask somebody on the entrace entrance to borrow lend you their iksica and most of people will do it. Also if you are cold and you want to you can stay in Studentski centar until 9pm 21:00 and on the first floor are some couches where you can take a nap. homeless people sometimes sleep there. You can get there from main square (Jelacic platz) taking trams 17, 14 to Studentski centar station or 12 to Technical museum station (technical Technical museum and studentski Studentski centar stations are practicly practically the same stations) and just across the street is studentski Studentski centar.
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