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== Personal Experiences ==
:''"September 2019: Cartagena -> Barranquilla. I made followed the instructions to go to the police checkpoint about 2km further from the Terminal. In hindsight it was a mediocre idea. Everybody in Colombia knows police checkpoints are just for the mistake police to make bribe money. So cars won’t stop for you because they fear the police could still check them. And already stopped cars are in a bad mood because they just needed to pay. Also it’s just a mess with all the standing and passing cars so that you wont get noticed well. Way better would be to take a bus out of town to Bayunca and wait behind one of taking the road directly south speed bumps. Alternatively if you could somehow reach the peaje in the middle between Bayunca and Clemencia this would be an optimal point. From then on in every little town there are speed bumps and gas stations where your chances are higher than near Cartagena." - [[User:Kaulter|Kaulter]] :" March 2014 - I took a bus to the bus terminal(as you would expect to do) (which I hasten to add is a cracking place to sleep for the night. Super friendly staff and lots of police, and free Wifi, just sleep on the chairs (movable) to Turbacoavoid being woken up) . Next morning I walked all out through the way apocalyptic landscape about 2km to were the road forks north and south. Towards Barranquilla there is a police checkpoint, but they would allow me to stand after it. However, on occasion trucks pull in here to secure loads, and it was with one of those happy chappies that next city without I got a single lift north. If you are transiting Barren, take any ride. But there were no trucks! Don't make the same mistake, but swap of at a busy petrol station to find rides towards Santa Marta as hitching out of B is a pain in the truck roadB. Waited 20 minutes here.'' " -[[User:Chael777Lukeyboy95|Chael777Lukeyboy95]]
:"January 2014: Following the instructions above, I took a bus in the direction of Mamonal (a final stop of a bus was Passacaballo). I left a bus in front of Ferreteria Reina and walked towards Peaje. There the road splits: to Baranquilla and to Medellin. I saw also many buses passing there with a direction "Caracoles", so probably you can take a bus directly to peaje from city centre. I needed to go to Medellin, and very soon a moto took me and brought to first gas station "La gran via", where I stayed for a night. All personal there was very nice and even promised to find a truck for me in the morning. But I prefered to do everything by myself and after 1 hour waiting I got a ride with a small car to Sincelejo." -[[User:che.apelsin|che.apelsin]]
:" March 2014 - I took a bus to the bus terminal(as you would expect to do) (which ''I hasten to add is a cracking place to sleep for made the night. Super friendly staff and lots mistake of police, and free Wifi, just sleep on taking the chairs (movable) road directly south to avoid being woken up) Turbaco. Next morning I walked out through all the apocalyptic landscape about 2km way to were the road forks north and souththat next city without a single ride. Towards Barranquilla But there is a police checkpoint, but they would allow me to stand after it. However, on occasion were no trucks pull in here to secure loads, and it was with one of those happy chappies that I got a lift north. If you are transiting Barren! Don't make the same mistake, take any ride, but swap of at a busy petrol station to find rides towards Santa Marta as hitching out of B is a pain in the Btruck road. Waited 20 minutes here." '' - [[User:Lukeyboy95Chael777|Lukeyboy95Chael777]]
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