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'''Los AngelesKuala Lumpur''', is the largest city capital of the southwestern U.S state of California[[Malaysia]].

Hitching in the LA area can be difficult, as in any major city where drivers are wary of shady individuals/drug addicts. One should make a decent attempt to look like a "non risky" person such as by smiling, or wearing bright clothing, or displaying alert or confident body language; this will lead to greater success in getting picked up. Stick to on-ramps, making sure to not proceed past the "no pedestrians" sign so as to avoid being hassled by the police. If you are a male and alone, you are likely to wait longer for a ride than you might elsewhere in California (Bay Area excluded), but with patience you'll be picked up. Another factor to consider is the area of the city you are in; a middle class area or suburb might yield more success than hitchhiking == Hitchhiking out of inner city or upper crust areas.===== South towards [[Singapore]], [[Melaka]] ===LA There is a notoriously sprawling metropolis, and if you are trying to hitchhike out big toll gate south of the city from anywhere other than the edgewhich is an excellent hitchhiking place, you will almost certainly need to change cars at least once. There are many on-ramps, and often you can easily walk from one to the next. It's good but not too easy to ask locals about where you can find most trafficreach.

=== North on Highway 101 ===You may want It's very possible to take the Metrolink train north get a direct lift to Oxnard and try hitchhiking along Highway 101 Singapore from therethis place.

Take bus 534 from Santa Monica to Malibu, last stop, from there stick out your thumb on If you don't fancy a Chevron gas station, there long walk or dicing with death/police by crossing rail tracks - this is a friendly pocho guy working theresomewhat easier option. Take the LTR in the direction of Seremban and alight at Serdang. Once you exit the station turn left, he has met and fed many hitchhikerscross the busy carriageway over the footbridge. Thumb may From here you could ask a taxi to take you to Oxnard the toll station, or even further walk two minutes in the direction of traffic to Ventura or Santa Barbarathe flyover. It worked might seem a little nervy at first, but the traffic is slowing up the hill and into the bend, and there's more than enough room just before the apex for vehicles to pull in. You're not quite on the right road yet for me twice Singapore - but a sign saying highway E2 will get you a ride in no time - most probably dropped at the next toll station south. [[User:Looking for Stu|Looking for Stu]] was picked up in five minutes here with a span of two yearsSingapore sign and taken to the highway.

If you are in the heart of the city, or anywhere in Hollywood, West LA, etc., Another save option and want only a five minute walk is to go north on highway 1 / 101, you can take the Red Line LTR (metro/train from Downtown Los Angeles ) to the Hollywood and Highland station. Get off theresame stop as mentioned above: Serdang (In total 10 RM from Petronas Towers area, and head south one major block to get to Sunset BlvdMarch 2020). Bus #2, which runs along Sunset, will take you all Exit the way from Hollywood to train station through the PCH (highway 1)gates. Note: you don't have to Than take the red line walking bridge that leads you to get there -- bus #2 runs along Sunset Blvd. all the way until other side of the PCHrails, so just get to Sunset any way possiblea playground on the opposite of the trainstation. At You can already see the PCH bus stophighway E2 from the bridge, walk straight in the direction of the highway until you can transfer 't go further. Walk about 100 meters to bus #534 the right and you'll find a small stairs where you can enter a rest station (as mentioned aboveR&R Serdang), and at the E2 highway. From there you should easily get a ride that all in the way to itdirection of Melaka. It's last stop in Malibualso the right highway to Singapore. You can essentially hitch hike straight out There are a couple of the bus stoprestaurants and toilets. In 2020 [[User:SamuelsinceraWorldhitchhiker|SamuelsinceraWorldhitchhiker]] has hitch-hiked out did this and walked to the entrance of Malibuthe highway (at the end of the rest area). Within five minutes three cars stopped, from that location, more than 10 times, and finds it incredibly reliable, with minimal wait times -- and generally scores longer ridesthe third car took him in the direction of Melaka.

=== North towards [[Thailand]] ===There are three places which you should consider in order to get out of the city towards north.==== Option 1 ====The first one is a Shell gas station right behind the toll gate (it is at the Plaza tol Jalan Duta). In order to get there, you can take the KTM commuter train and get off at the ''Segambut'' station. From there, walk about 1.5km south on Interstate 1-5 the highway. Unfortunately it's very easy to get lost in this area, in the middle of several highways, large roads, huge concrete bridges, and exchanges, with very few, useless road signs. Choose this option only if you have a GPS with you.==== Option 2 ====The other place you can consider is a toll gate near the KTM station Sungai Buloh.

Getting out Get off the KTM commuter train at ''Sungai Buloh'', walk down the stairs and you will come to a motorway. Turn and walk left then walk across the overpass to the other side of the motorway. If you are facing the train station you just came from, then walk right along the side of motorway. Initially you will walk under a motorway bridge, keep walking straight along the side of the motorway. It will get quite narrow but walk on the inside of the LA area can be trickybarrier. To your right you will see a flood water and then the toll booth you are trying to get to. Continue walking straight, you will come to a plant nursery on the side of the road. Go through the gates but keep walking in the same direction as before. A spot You will come to a small pipe opening with space water. You can easily climb and exposure is near jump the Ontario Mills Mall, fence to get over then continue walking. You will come to an over bridge where 4th Street meets I-15. From LA you can take walk along to the Red / San Bernardino Metro right which will put you on the road to the Rancho Cucamonga Metrolinktoll gate. From thereWalk along the side of road towards the toll gate, you'll walk SOUTH (away from past it, run across to the mountains) other side and be sure to 4th street. Make a left stand on 4th street the shoulder of the lane heading straight through, which is the "labuan besar utara selatan" (going eastbig road from north/south). Stay on ==== Option 3 ====Take the KTM train heading north and get off at the left side last station called "Rawang", for just a couple of the streetRinggit (about 1$). Two large blocks later youYou'll pass under arrive at this town "Rawang" that is not on the freewayhighway but you can reach very easily, just a short 5 minutes walk, another main road going north (toward: Tapah, Ipoh, Cameron Highlands, Penang, Thailand border, etc. After that ). That is probably not the perfect way to head north if you are in a rush, because you'll see a stop light where traffic from Ontatio Mills turns left from 4thhave to deal with short and indirect lifts until you get to Tapah (about 100km north of Rawang), onto the on-ramp. Therebut it's not enough room for a semibad option, but plenty of space for cars to stophitchhiking on that road is very easy.

=== A very good option from the Rawang stop is to take the roughly 20 minute walk to the main North-South highway. Once you get off at the station, walk south along the main road (Jalan Rawang) and follow the off ramp on Ithe right side of the road (traffic should be flowing in the opposite direction) up to Jalan Batu Arang. Follow this road, and take the right at the first lights onto Jalan Kuala Garing. Follow this road until you reach the second fork, and take a left (the road should be a relatively unused, beat-5 towards [[San Diego]] up path). You should see the highway ahead, and within 200 meters this road will take you through a narrow tunnel under the motorway. If it doesn't, you probably took a left at the wrong fork. After the tunnel, turn right and walk until you see the rest area...you will have to hop over the low barrier to get to the rest area. There, you will find a gas station, Starbucks, a hotel and other facilities...and most importantly, many cars heading North. Hitching a ride from there is very quick and [[Tijuana]] ===easy.

Depending on where in the urban sprawl you are, there are a number of spots from where it might be possible to start on your way south. Here is a list of potential spots === East towards Kuantan and their reachability by public transport; if you have hitched at one of them, please add your experience. Kota Bharu===

*'''From Hollywood:''' Within 15 minutes [[User:Guaka|guaka]] hitched a ride straight Now you wanna get yourself to E8 which takes you to Bentong and then either to [[San Diego]] on Kota Bharu or Kuantan. To do this take the Hollywood Blvd on ramp KTM to 101 South. It was around Christmas time thoughBatu Caves and start walking east along road 28, with you could either keep on walking east along road 28 until you reach the McD and Petronas station 3km away or you can make a guy driving down sign that says Petronas or petrol station and hitch along road 28. Once you get to his family.the McD you will get a ride within 5 minutes

*Sleeping on the streets, while not necessarily suggested, is entirely possible with no problems. Find a closed business or Monorel station and lay down for the night. This might not work in areas such as the Golden Triangle, but is viable in other areas. Simply be aware of the traffic. Choose a good area and you should be safe. Good places include near the ''river'From Buena ' in Chinatown behind some buildings is a rather secluded area, the large area of parks (Deer Park, Hibiscus Park, Artesia Boulevard:''' Entrance #117 from Artesia Boulevard is Orchid Park - also good for stashing your things) close to the National Mosque west of Chinatown for being close to Buena Park Metrolink downtown. Outside the gates of the Batu Caves looking at the highway, turn right. You are heading toward the Monorel station. Once you reach a T-intersection, to your right are a series of benches with cover perfect for sleeping if you are on your way out of the city.

*'''From Anaheim:''' Entrance 1E of CA-57 (West Orangewood Avenue, just before merging with I-5) == Getting around ==Kuala Lumpur is a relatively small city and 107C of I-5 (Chapman Avenue) are close is perfectly walkable. Just make sure to Anaheim Metrolink stationnot get lost.

*'''From Tustin:''' Entrance 99 on Culver Drive is close Kuala Lumpur has a fairly decent public transportation system comprised of trains and buses. You can get from KL Sentral to Tustin Metrolink stationany major area of the city. The trains run from around 5AM to midnight.

*'''From IrvineThere is an entirely free system of buses known as GoKL ([http:''' Entrance 94 on Alton Parkway is close //www.gokl.com.my/]). These purple buses go to various malls and tourist attractions, but can successfully be used to Irvine Transport Centertraverse the majority of the city.

=== East towards [[Phoenix]] =Stashing ==

It'll take a while before you get out of metropolitan areaAt KL Sentral there are many lockers available for use. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] was lucky There are two different kinds - the ones near the escalator toward the exit, close to have a host all the bathrooms and those on the way to the departure gate for the KL Ekspres to the airport near the escalator heading toward the mall. The lockers toward KL Ekspres are MYR 2 for 24 hours, including overnight, and MYR 2 for every hour over 24 hours. The lockers near the bathroom range in Chino who picked him up at LAX price from MYR 5 to 20 and next day dropped him off another 30 miles or so eastdo not allow for overnight storage.

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