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===To [[Tel Aviv]]===  
 
===To [[Tel Aviv]]===  
 
Take a bus to the main bus station in west Jerusalem. Go on walking further on Jaffa road, till you get to the main junction where you can see the "Begin" highway. go on walking straight and pass this junction, and on your right (after the petrol station) you will see a bus station, the best spot to hitchike. Most likely you will see other hitchikers standing there too. If you get bored or want to burn some time, just behind you there is an ancient Palestinian village (Lifta), which was deserted in 1948. go down the stairs and find your way to the local spring.
 
Take a bus to the main bus station in west Jerusalem. Go on walking further on Jaffa road, till you get to the main junction where you can see the "Begin" highway. go on walking straight and pass this junction, and on your right (after the petrol station) you will see a bus station, the best spot to hitchike. Most likely you will see other hitchikers standing there too. If you get bored or want to burn some time, just behind you there is an ancient Palestinian village (Lifta), which was deserted in 1948. go down the stairs and find your way to the local spring.
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===To [[Tiberias]] and the [[Golan heights]]===
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Your first goal is the Beit ha-Arava Junction, which connects Higway 1 going west from Jerusalem, to Highway 90, which goes north to the Kinneret. From the city center, the bus station, or other places that the following bus lines hit, take buses 25, 4 or 4A to get to the Har Ha'tsofim Junction, (French Hill). This junction is the spot to hitchhike in the direction of the Dead sea. The place is usually crowded with hitchhikers, and drivers stop often. Most likely they will go only half ways, in which case you should ask to go down in the entry junction to their settlement, and continue hitchhiking from the bus station.
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From the Beit ha-Arava Junction, head north on Road 90 until you reach the Tsemach Junciton at the bottom of the Kinneret. From there, You can either hitchike to [[Tiberias]] by going westwards on Road 90, or use the Trempiyada (hitching spot) up to the Golan. People either drive up to Road 92 or Road 98 from there. Road 98 goes right up to the Golan, and Road 92 runs along the west coast of the Kinneret from where you can pick up Roads 789 or 87 to the Golan. Highway 789 connects to Road 98 from where you can chose to either continue north or head south. Road 87 also connects to 98, but a bit later, and it also turns west over the Kinneret or east through the center of the Golan until it picks up 98 at its end.
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Revision as of 15:16, 24 December 2006

Jerusalem is a city in the middle east, disputed between Israel and Palestine.

Hitching out

To the Dead Sea

From the city center or the bus station, take buses 25, 4 or 4A to get to the "French Hill junction", in Hebrew referred to as "Har Ha'tzofim". This junction is the spot to hitchhike in the direction of Jericho and the Dead sea. The place is usually crowded with hitchhikers, and drivers stop often. Most likely they will go only half ways, in which case you should ask to go down in the entry junction to their settlement, and continue hitchhiking from the bus station. When reaching the Beit-HaArava junction, the road turn south and from there you can ask to get off in any location at the shore of the dead sea.

To Tel Aviv

Take a bus to the main bus station in west Jerusalem. Go on walking further on Jaffa road, till you get to the main junction where you can see the "Begin" highway. go on walking straight and pass this junction, and on your right (after the petrol station) you will see a bus station, the best spot to hitchike. Most likely you will see other hitchikers standing there too. If you get bored or want to burn some time, just behind you there is an ancient Palestinian village (Lifta), which was deserted in 1948. go down the stairs and find your way to the local spring.

To Tiberias and the Golan heights

Your first goal is the Beit ha-Arava Junction, which connects Higway 1 going west from Jerusalem, to Highway 90, which goes north to the Kinneret. From the city center, the bus station, or other places that the following bus lines hit, take buses 25, 4 or 4A to get to the Har Ha'tsofim Junction, (French Hill). This junction is the spot to hitchhike in the direction of the Dead sea. The place is usually crowded with hitchhikers, and drivers stop often. Most likely they will go only half ways, in which case you should ask to go down in the entry junction to their settlement, and continue hitchhiking from the bus station.

From the Beit ha-Arava Junction, head north on Road 90 until you reach the Tsemach Junciton at the bottom of the Kinneret. From there, You can either hitchike to Tiberias by going westwards on Road 90, or use the Trempiyada (hitching spot) up to the Golan. People either drive up to Road 92 or Road 98 from there. Road 98 goes right up to the Golan, and Road 92 runs along the west coast of the Kinneret from where you can pick up Roads 789 or 87 to the Golan. Highway 789 connects to Road 98 from where you can chose to either continue north or head south. Road 87 also connects to 98, but a bit later, and it also turns west over the Kinneret or east through the center of the Golan until it picks up 98 at its end.