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=== West towards [[Granada]], [[Almería]] or East towards [[Alicante]] ===
There is a petrol station called Santomera Repsol on the A-7 which is the last "big-one" heading west. Afterwards you only have like millions of small ones and often away from the motorway. It is not a AP anymore, only an A-road.
Take bus number 36 towards Santomera/La Matanza (there are only 3 buses per day going further than Santomera, 10:30, 17:30 and ..., otherwise you have to walk like 2-3 km north from Santomera on the MU-414). Ask the driver to drop you off at the roundabout directly after crossing under the A-7. Take the small road on that roundabout eastwards and choose which side you want to hitchhike (there is a little tunnel after like 200 m). The petrol station is like a 20 minute walk away.
Tested yesterday 25.03.2010 - worked like a charm. I waited around 30 minutes including the coffee I had in the gas station.
([http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.1,-1.042006&spn=0.007615,0.021973&t=h&z=16 location on map])
Re-tested yesterday on the 29.08.2016! Easiest ride we got in Spain, even though we are a couple with a medium-large dog, we still got a ride in ten minutes literally by sitting down eating with a sign above our backpacks! The sign said Alicante, but we went all the way to Valencia! Lucky spot!
bailamooos re-tested this on 24.08.2016 with great success. I arrived here at 10pm from Alicante heading south/west, pitched my tent behind the gas station for the night, woke up in the morning and hitched a ride within 45 minutes all the way to Almeria.
=== West towards [[Granada]], [[Almería]] ===