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* Option 1: You can take bus #137 (Paso de la Arena), #370 (Cerro) or 17 (Casabo) from the roundabout at Palacio Legislativo. These buses most likely also pass downtown. The bus stop is behind the Palacio, next to the José Batlle y Ordóñez monument. The price for one ticket is $20 24 (March 2013November 2014). Get out at Av. Dr. Carlos Maria Ramirez, esq. (crossing with) Concordia. Ask somebody on the bus if you are not sure. If you miss it, you'll see yourself driving over the Ruta 1 highway, then just get out at the first next stop. From Concordia crossing, walk right into the side-road next to the bridge. You'll find yourself standing at the highway. Walk up about 200m to the on-ramp. You can use this ramp to hitchhike cars both on the highway and driving onto it. This place is also fine for hitchhiking towards La Paz, Canelones or [[Florida (Uruguay)|Florida]] along Ruta 5. The highway crossing can be found From the on-ramp, well away from the city for about 1km, where Ruta 5 seperates. You will have better luck here as the initial on-ramp is a kilometer behind little busy., - WARNING! DON'T GO TO THIS FUCKING PLACE NO MORE!!! I went here to hitch-hike three weeks ago. Two guys tried to rob me (yeah, right in front of the road, 2 o'clock afternoon), one had a gun and I ended up in the hospital same night, with my shoulder dislocated. DON'T DON'T DON'T DON'T go to this place, please. I spoke with police later and they said that this spotneighborhood is dangerous now and walking here is a crazy idea (Natrix, your humble viajero from Lithuania, January, 2020).

* Option 3: Catch the Santiago Vazquez Take bus in downtown Montevideo towards Vazquez #127 (Delta del Tigre/Barra Santa Lucía) (U$36) and Mercedes (not sure of indicate to the bus number though, you should ask). When driver that you get want to Santiago Vazquez cross the bridge and start hitching after the toll. If going to Gualeguaychu get off in the 2 and start hitching thereat Peaje Santa Lucía. However it's strongly recommended to go to Colonia. If you're going from Colonia to Gualeguaychu hitch on The bus runs by the 21corner of Avenida General Rondeau/Paysandú street. Even if you will see This peaje is the ugliest towns in the country first toll booth on Ruta 1 leading towards Colonia de Sacramento and a great and you'll get cider instead easy spot to hitchhike out of water people are super niceMontevideo.

If you plan to hitchhike east along the ''Interbalnearia'', a good start might be at the Carrasco airport. You can take the local bus #109 to Parque Roosevelt ($20, April 201328 Pesos march 2016) until the last stop, where the Parque R. begins. It can take you about 30-45min from Centro. You then just follow the road for about 1 km, and you'll situate yourself at a roundabout which marks the beginning of the IB. Behind the roundabout, there's a bus stop with plenty of space to stop cars. There's also two service stations a bit up along the way. Still quite some traffic might go only to the airport which is located about a 1However,5 km up the road, so in doubt it might be possible difficult to walk up behind hitch from there as the bridge (exit/entrance to the airport) road splits just a few kilometers further and start from there. Traffic is plentyfulmany people don't go far.

''[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] tried A quicker (although more expensive) option is to hitchhike take a bus to peaje Pando (Pando toll booth) from here in April 2013, but somehow after three hours the start of thumb gestures, nobody stoppedAvenida Italia across the bus terminal Tres Cruces. Ask the locals which bus runs there and tell the driver that you want to get off at peaje Pando (it is the first peaje). Must have been a cloudy dayThe bus costs 64 pesos (March 2015). Still, From the toll booth it seems the only suitable place is quite easy to get east along hitchhike. This option has the IB when hitchhiking out advantage that you start a bit further outside of Montevideoand are already behind the airport and the split of the road.''