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=== From the west {{E|80}} ===If you drive highway look around and ask your driver to let you out in place where you see a Istanbul in walking distance than ask local people for bus/metro. You should have some small local cash to pay for ticket. Or walk :)
Trucks are banned from entering the city during rush hours (morning: ''?'', evening: about 17:00-22:00), and even when they can proceed through the city, there are few places to stop. Therefore it is highly likely that your driver will let you == Hitching out at the Mahmutbey toll booths. There are two ways to the centre from here. Note that there are no ATMs on the outskirts of Istanbul. If you have no Turkish money, the driver may let you travel for free, or a friendly local may pay for you; arrive with some Turkish lira in your pocket to not be reliant on the kindness of strangers.==
One option is to ''Generally, you can just start hitching anywhere in the city center. Just walk to the side road to the right nearest highway and stick your thumb out. It might need a few lifts until you get out of the motorwayborder, then turn to the first or second street to your right (the wide one). From the bus stop about 200 m down but given that streetyou hardly ever wait more than 10 minutes for a lift, take bus 89M "Zeytinburnu Metro", which will cost around 2 Turkish lira (~ €0.80) (see section below on Public it can be faster than public transport). From Zeytinburnu there is an extensive choice of public transportation into the city such as trams to Sultanahmet, buses to Taksim/Beyoğlu (93C), or the ''Metrobüs'' heading for the Asian side across the Bosphorus.
Another option, from close to the motorway toll booth, are the frequent minibuses to Topkapı or Yenibosna, from which you can find transportation further into the centre.
A third option is possible if your driver is going to the Asian side of Istanbul. If he will cross the bridge ''Fatih Sultan Mehmet kuprusu''. ask him to drop you at the last exit before the bridge's toll booth=== Northwest towards [[Greece]] , which is right after you pass the new stadium. if you walk/hitch down that road[[Edirne]], very soon you will arrive at a metro station, which will take you directly to Taksim.[[Bulgaria]] {{E|80}} {{E|84}}===
== Hitching out ==
''Generally, you can just start hitching anywhere in the city center. Just walk to the nearest highway and stick your thumb out. It might need a few lifts until you get out of the border, but given that you hardly ever wait more than 10 minutes for a lift, it can be faster than public transport.''==== Test option - Ispartakule Park Area North ====
==== Test option - Ispartakule Park Area North ====
Ispartakule Park Area North is a fuel station on E80 highway==== Getting to suburbans of Istanbul ====(See Google maps for getting there and update how its. There is bus 76E going to Sehit Serife Bacı Lisesi bus stop not far place)
=== Westwards towards Another way to get to city's western outskirts is to take the metro from Aksaray close to Sultanahmet in the old city centre, and ride it till ''Yenibosna'' station (2.0 TL pp, roughly €0.80). Then, take the public bus #448 (''Yenibosna Metro-Mimarsinan''; an extra 2.00 TL pp), which departs from the stops right next to metro station. You will ride this bus for a ''long'' time, roughly an hour, until where it quits the motorway west and turns to right in a cloverleaf interchange near the village of [[GreeceMimarsinan]], where the bus eventually heads. Get off at the stop right at the very location bus turns right, this is where as much west as you can get on Istanbul's public transportation. Then walk a bit further from the junction, and start thumbing. Hitchhiker [[User:Vidimian|Vidimian] ] tried this route in 2002 or 2003, when he wasn't very experienced at hitchhiking. The first lift offer arrived so late (after about 2 hours of thumbing) and the following lifts were so short (via and, again, late) that he could make it to [[Tekirdağ|Tekirdag]]) {{E|84}} ===, a mere 120 km away from this hitching spot, after the night falls, despite starting early in the morning.
'''Update (as of August 2018)''': the train to [[Muratlı]] is operating twice a day, departing from Halkalı train station in the West of the city. The fare to Muratlı is 13.5 TL (11 TL if you're under 26). You can get to Muratlı train station by direct bus from Eminönü, or by metrobus (Cennet Mahallesi metrobus stop is nearly 1 hour of walking from the train station). Be aware that it is currently impossible to pay by the card at Halkalı station, and there is no ATM nearby, so prepare cash in advance.
'''EDIT''': The train doesn't run anymore. Also to avoid lots ==== Trains out of local traffic, many people going in that direction rather take the highway towards Edirne, and turn off the highway to Kinali and further to the west. So the best to do is to use the same spot as for going towards Edirne, Mahmutbey pay-tolls, try to hitchhike a car to Tekirdag, or at least to the Kinali exit, take off the highway and hitchhike further to the west.city ====
Take the suburban train (''banliyö treni'') from the very city center (Sirkeci) towards Halkali. It's only 2.00 lira. Get off at ''Küçükçekmece''. If the train station is 6 o'clock, walk in the direction of 12 o'clock in order to find the on ramp towards [[Tekirdağ|Tekirdag]]. This is the same road that will take you directly to Greece, although you will still be well within the congested motorways of suburban Istanbul. Be aware that you cannot cross this border walking! You have to find somebody to take you across. Knowing [[Western Europe phrasebook|German]] will help you a lot to explain that you need help to cross the border due to many drivers with a Turkish-German background.
* Hitchhikers experience: I took For those who rather not try hitchhiking through the train to Küçükçekmece like I read on here, and found overgrown western suburbs of the highway. To my dismay it was '''impossible''' to hitch. After walking 2 milescity, hoping there would be a spot for people slightly more expensive but a lot easier way to follow this westbound route to pull off, there was nothing. I noticed these buses that road in the middle of the highway, and decided Greece may be to take one down the road. After two stops, it was the end of the line. Fortunately, there was a huge spot morning train to hitchhike. For anyone who goes this way[[Muratlı]] from Sirkeci station in central Istanbul, I '''highly''' recommend taking the bus the whole and then hitch your way instead of trying forward to walk like I didGreece via [[Tekirdağ]] from there. Or, use another method to hitchSee [[Muratlı]] article for full details. - Jon
Another way to get to city's western outskirts is to take the metro from Aksaray close to Sultanahmet in the old city centre, and ride it till ''Yenibosna'' station (2.0 TL pp, roughly €0.80). Then, take the public bus #448 (''Yenibosna Metro-Mimarsinan''; an extra 2.00 TL pp), which departs from the stops right next to metro station. You will ride this bus for a ''long'' time, roughly an hour, until where it quits the motorway west and turns to right in a cloverleaf interchange near the village of [[Mimarsinan]], where the bus eventually heads. Get off at the stop right at the very location bus turns right, this is where as much west as you can get on Istanbul's public transportation. Then walk a bit further from the junction, and start thumbing. Hitchhiker [[User:Vidimian|Vidimian]] tried this route in 2002 or 2003, when he wasn't very experienced at hitchhiking. The first lift offer arrived so late (after about 2 hours of thumbing) and the following lifts were so short (and, again, late) that he could make it to [[Tekirdağ]], a mere 120 km away from this hitching spot, after the night falls, despite starting early in the morning.
For those who rather not try hitchhiking through the overgrown western suburbs of the city, a slightly more expensive but a lot easier way to follow this westbound route to Greece may be to take the morning train to [[Muratlı]] from Sirkeci station in central Istanbul, and then hitch your way forward to Greece via [[Tekirdağ]] from there. See [[Muratlı]] article for full details.***
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== Hitching in ==
Ispartakule Park Area North is a fuel station on E80 highway=== Northwest towards [[Edirne]] (See Google maps for getting there and [[Bulgaria]] {{E|80}} {{E|84}}=== update how its. There are several ways is bus 76E going to get out of the city centre and onto the main highway. If you Sehit Serife Bacı Lisesi bus stop a car that is not going a long distance, then it is best to aim for the Mahmutbey toll booths in the northwest of Istanbul where the E80 really begins. far place)
Once you have passed the border, try to stay in the car which took you through, as the first 20-30 km on the Greek side is one of the worst places to hitchhike in Europe. Local people there are afraid of stories about immigrants from Iran and Afghanistan etc. so it's especially hard to get a ride. It took hitchhiker [[User:Lapulevel|Lapulevel]] a full day to get out of this area—and that wasn't simply a shortage of luck as that happened twice!
=== Westwards towards [[Cannakale]] (via [[Tekirdağ|Tekirdag]]) ===
== Wild camping ==
Ride metro line 2 to Darussafaka station and next to it on the circle corner of streets Buyukder and Ulu streets you can climb over the fance to Hacı Osman Korusuparkhttps://ibb. co/RHmd9jb Get only a bit inside but be carefull there ar some sharp plants Look more at [http://nomadwiki.org/en/Istanbul Nomadwiki] for these info
== Personal experiences ==
- 2 times I hitchhiked from Istanbul to Asia and once back to Europe. I didn´t have any map of the city and I haven´t use any bus because hitchhiking from Istanbul is very easy. There are a lot of cars and turkish drivers will not let you wait. If you are goning to Asia and you´re still in european part so the best spot is probably on the start of Bosphorus bridge. To get out from Istanbul you always need to take more cars(about 3-5 cars). In this city you can use hitchhiking as a public transport, just raise you´re tumb and there is a big chance that you´ll come forexample to city center faster than by metro. Král všech moří, 2016/17
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