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=== Southeast towards [[Niš]], [[Sofia]], [[Skopje]] {{European Route Number|75}} ===
There are several possibilities.
==== Bus 461 ====
The below information about the toll station at Bubanj Potok is outdated, it was moved several years ago because a huge IKEA was built there instead. The toll station has moved about 10km down the E75 highway to the town of Vrčin. You can follow the same directions to get to the Šumice (шумице) bus stop and from there, walk back across the street about 100 metres. There should be a lot of buses parked there and you should see bus 461. Take this down the highway and get out after the second stop at 'Vrčin Ivo Lola Ribar (врчин иво лола рибар)'. You will travel a long way down the highway without stopping, don't worry. After you get out, cross over the highway and take the first right turn down the street 'Moše Pijade (моше пијаде)'. Keep following this road next to the highway and after about 1.5km you will see the toll station which you can start hitching from.
==== Bus 31 ====
Take bus 31 from the city centre (from the squares ''Trg Studentski'' or ''Trg Slavia'' or in front of the large McDonalds) or bus number 17 going from Zemun, through Novi Beograd, until you get to the intersection of the streets ''Ustanička'' and ''Vojislava Ilića'' (ask someone in the bus for the stop ''ShumiceSumice'', but in case you miss is it two stops before the last - on the right you will see a pekara and it's a bigger intersection after going uphill for a while). Turn around and go left, walk to the bridge, cross it, go downstairs, and walk around 150m to the right from the bridge. There you will find a on-ramp to the motorway, and it is the spot from where you can hitchhike towards the toll station. (Alternatively you can walk down the motorway for a couple of hundred meters further and talk to people on a petrol station. This might work better, because many people using the on-ramp are not leaving Belgrade). You should have sign which says "RAMPA" (toll station) or "BUBANJ POTOK" (town right before the toll station) (the toll station has moved, see the comment from June 2018!) in order to get a lift, otherwise you risk staying there for a long time. It is possible that someone who is not going to the toll station, but to Bubanj Potok or Leštane will give you lift, but it is no problem, since after he turns, you have only 10 minutes on foot to the toll station. Once you reach the toll station, it is easy to get direct rides all the way to Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia or even Turkey if the driver allows you to sleep the night in his truck.
* ''[[User:Nero12|Nero12]] (July 2011) Yup, it works great.''
* ''[[User:Rozwal|Rozwal]] (October 2011) had a sign RAMPA and got a ride with a man going out of the highway just before Rampa so the sign proved very very useful.''
* [[User:Antonopa|Antonopa]] (April 2017) second time using this spot, it's perfect, a lot of traffic heading in the right direction, very easy to get a lift over to the toll station, and from there easy to catch a ride with a truck. Made the trip from belgrade to skopje in 10hrs starting from here at 1200.
* [[User:Janos|Janos]] (June 2018) The toll station in BUBANJ POTOK is not in use anymore! There is a new toll station in in VRČIN (some 5 km further). I waited for an hour at the gas station, then decided to start asking people directly and the first person took me.
* [[User:justgettingaround|Justgettingaround]] (August 2019) Went to the petrol station and asked directly; got a ride within 5 minutes from some really cool musicians going to Skopje. Wasn´t headed there; got off before the toll station and started hitching with trucks through pretty much the entire country. Super kind guys, made sure we got as far as they could get us, made it to Bulgarian border until our driver got screwed bc he forgot his ID and we had to hitch at the border crossing; no trouble at all, though, got in a cute lil van and made it to Sofia from Belgrade in one day. Was recommended to write signs in both the Latin/Romanic and Cyrillic alphabets.
==== Trolleybus 29 ====
Find the map on http://www.serbiatravelers.org/en/index.php/hitchhiking/145-beograd
=== Southwest towards [[Sarajevo]] and [[Montenegro]] ===
[[File:Donraspunicum.jpeg|right|thumb|150px|[[User:Kristian|Kristian]] hitchhiking towards [[Čačak]] in Belgrade (2013)]]
There are 2 ways to Sarajevo, one through Čačak-Uzice, a bit south, the other one more direct but not written on online maps... The one through Čačak worked well for us. Take the bus 53 from the green open market called "Zelena pijaca" (the stop is called ''Zeleni venac'') in the center, to the last station(''Vidikovac''). Then just follow the street for one minute, turn right, here is the exit to the motorway, climb up the bridge and try to hitchhike there, there is some place for cars to pull over, but in Serbia when they want to stop the car the dont really need a proper place ;). It seems that buses 531, 532, 533 go further, but it's not really needed, and they might be regional buses. Use signs ČA and/or UE (ČaČak-Uzice).[[User:P40fA|Jan]] hitched a ride to Čačak in Sep 2018 here in ten minutes.
This way through Čačak-Uzice is not the fastest but in t0ma5´s opinion very interesting, it will take you 6-7 hours to reach Sarajevo and before leaving Serbia you will pass near by GuČa, where a crazy Balkan music festival takes place every summer and just before the Bosnian border is Mokra Gora, the ethno village that the filmmaker Kusturica made for his movie, Life is a Miracle, you can visit it in few hours if you have the times but there is entrance fee.
After Uzice there is not much traffic going to Bosnia since after the border and before Sarajevo there is not any big city, so if you get a ride the driver will probably take u all the way to Sarajevo :)
This route is also useful to get to Montenegro - just use the ''Montenegro'' or ''MNE'' sign after you get out of Belgrade. The drivers usually go through Nova Varoš and Bijelo Polje.
=== North towards [[Novi Sad]] and [[Budapest]] {{European Route Number|75}} ===
