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=== East towards [[Sofia]] ([[Bulgaria]]) {{European Route Number|80}} ===
Take a city bus from the central square to Niška Banja (a one-way ticket should cost around 50 RSD, which is about 0.50€, conductors will charge it once you get on the bus). Get off the bus on the second-to-last stop, i.e. the stop right after the just before roundabout (before bus crosses over the railroad tracks), after about a 15 minutes journey. There is a roundabout and you can thumb after the roundabout. Here, you may catch 70% of all locals driving out of the city to your direction.
However, from this point you can walk 3.5 km further to reach an ideal hitchhiking position in the village of Prosek (Просек), where this road joins the highway and all the other traffic going towards Bulgaria. After 3 km down the road, you will notice a small junction where roads merge, and after some 400-500 m more, you will be standing in the right spot with a couple of well-frequented Turkish restaurants around and some roadside parking area for long-distance trucks (most of them again being Turkish). Although it is possible to get a ride at the previous spot, this one in Prosek (Просек) should be your goal for international rides, as you have excellent chances to find a straight ride to [[Bulgaria]] or even further towards [[Turkey]].
Alternative and possibly easier way to get to Prosek hitchhiking point is to get one of those suburban buses that go around local villages. Get to the main bus station just around the fortress, don't enter main terminals but find a smaller one with only one ticket selling booth (looks like a bus stop with buses constantly flowing through, just by the street, and not by fortress walls), and get on a bus to village of Prosek (Просек). Ticket should not be more than 1.25€, and these buses depart at every 60 minutes or so. Ask driver to let you know where to get off as this is still a local suburban bus line and stops aren't well marked. Anyway, bus stop where you're getting off has a restaurant meters away with big neon STOP sign, so you can't miss it. Once you get off, walk some 100 meters backwards and there you are, right at the position described above.
Another option towards Bugaria is to go to the Nais toll gate.
=== North towards [[Belgrade]] {{European Route Number|75}} ===
==== Bus ====
Next to the main bus station there's a suburban buses terminal and a bus stop on 'Bulevar 12. Februar' street, with "Branković" bakery being right across the street from the bus stop (adding this info for easier orientation). Get on a bus(bus ticket is 50 dinars(Feb.2013),although if you play dumb you can pass without paying), to Donji Komren (number 12 or 12s), and get off at the last stop. Continue walking that way and after few hundred meters, passing by petrol station on your right and under a motorway overpass, you should walk a few hundred meters past the overpass, there should be a turn towards Aleksinac, hitchhike just after it, preferably with a sign NAIS, it may take a while but, get a ride at least to the Nais toll area (''naplatna rampa Niš'') where you can then stand with a sign for your destination. All cars have to stop to get a ticket, it usually takes from 5-10min to get a ride to Belgrade. You can also hitchhike next to gas station and below highway overpass, as many cars comes from road on the left side and they usually stop as they have to enter bigger boulevard 12. februar.
If you are going straight to Belgrade accept only direct rides, since a lot of cars are going there and it's the biggest pay toll on the way.
Hint: If you are patient and you have time to wait, it's also possible to get a ride straight to Austria or Germany as many people from Bulgaria or Turkey are going back home and they have to pass this way. Also if you have a driving licence is good, because those people drive for about 20 hours and they need some time to sleep, so they would be grateful if you can drive for awhile.
=== South/Southwest towards [[Prishtina]] ([[Kosovo]]), [[Skopje]] ([[Macedonia]]) {{E|75}} {{E|80}} ===
