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PS: By the small road it means the one that is initially not paved and leads to the left becoming a paved road after 100 meters or so.
Tested yesterday 25.03.2010 - worked like a charm. I waited around 30 minutes including the coffee I had in the gas station.
([http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.1,-1.042006&spn=0.007615,0.021973&t=h&z=16 location on map])
I tried to hitch hike from this petrol station on the 27. 01. 2012. Even if I took the wrong bus and I had to walk 1 and half an hour, it was easy to find and this is a big petrol station. I was incredibly lucky, because the first people who I asked took me on the whole way to Malaga :)
bailamooos re-tested this on 24.08.2016 with great success. I arrived here at 10pm from Alicante heading south/west, pitched my tent behind the gas station for the night, woke up in the morning and hitched a ride within 45 minutes all the way to Almeria.
Tested Oct 2016 and there must have been some changes in bus schedules because there is no bus from Murcia to Santomera/La Matanza. The farthest you can go by bus is to Santomera. I asked various bus drivers and lady in the ticket office and everywhere the answer was the same - no more buses to Santomera/La Matanza. For us, hitchhikers, it means a longer walk to the petrol station...
So there is just a bus going to Santomera. It takes ~40 min from Murcia central bus station to Santomera and costs 2,05 €. Get out on the last bus stop in Santomera and be prepared for ~3km walk till autovia plus ~1km on autovia itself untill you reach the gas station (there's no other way, you basically have to walk a bit on the autovia in order to get to the spot)...
Despide difficulties to get to the the petrol station is quite busy and it's fairly easy to catch a long ride there.
chaichai
=== West towards [[Granada]], [[Almería]] ===
