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{{Hitchhiking Zine nomination}}
'''Maribor''', is the second most important centre and the second largest city of Slovenia. It has a population of about 114,000 inhabitants, and is quite close to the Slovene border with [[Austria]]. I have been told repeteadly by my drivers that they also hitchhiked the country when they were younger, and that’s why they would pick me. The highway connects the main cities and Austria in less than 2 hours.
== Hitchhiking out ==
'''2.''' Near the Maribor main train station, there's a main road called "Meljska cesta". About 1 block before the entrance to the H2 highway, there's a bus stop where cars about to enter the highway can easily stop. There are plenty of places to thumb in either sun or shade just in front of this bus stop. [[User:Itsagerston|itsagerston]] hitched a ride to Ljubljana in about 20 minutes on a Friday afternoon doing this in late October 2017. Heads up, though, a lot of people seemed displeased about our hitching.
August 2019: I also used this spot to get to Ljubljana and got picked up about 40 mn after pulling my sign. From my two precedent hitch I understand that hitchiking used to be very popular 20 years ago, so you might want to try with people around 40/50.
Note that this part of the town doesn’t have much tourist cars passing by, so you are likely to get picked by locals rather than tourists.
=== Direction of [[Graz]], [[Austria]], [[Murska Sobota]], [[Hungary]] ===
From the main train station (''Partizanska cesta'') continue walking south for about 50m, till you reach a junction. (Ahead of you is the Bus station.) Turn left to Meljska cesta, and go straight passing under the bridge and crossing the first junction. After a while you will see on your left the motorway on-ramp in direction of [[Austria]], stand on the right side and hitchhike, preferably with a sign. From here drivers go to either [[Austria]], or continue on the northern road towards Lenart, Murska Sobota and Hungary. There is also a bus stop just east of the on ramp which is safer and more convenient for drivers to pull over in, however there is less traffic coming from this direction.
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