Porto Alegre
Template:Porto Alegre is a city in Brazil.
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Hitchhiking out
- The Bus Station, at the Vespasiano Veppo Square in front of the Continental Hotel. This place is secure and the cars go slowly there.
- The gas station Ipiranga Aeroporto, at Avenue of States, 75. Many cars stop there to fill fuel and go to the two highway beyond: the BR-116, which goes North, and the BR 290, wich goes East.
If you are going to coastline, you can also get a car which take you to the until the Km 80 of the "Freeway", to hitchhiking there, at the gas station Petrobras Graal Rota 80. The administrator of this gas station not allows hitchhikers near the fuel pumps but it's a good place because you can hitchhiking at the exit to return to the highway BR-290, when the cars slow down speed to get in the road.
Hitchhiking in
Places to avoid
Avoid hitchhiking at the coasting of the highway BR-290, also called "Freeway". It could be dangerous.
Accommodation and Sleep
Porto Alegre have a lot of Couchsurfing (CS) members who are friendly to host people like hitchhikers.
You could contact these CS members at https://www.couchsurfing.org or going to the weekly meeting of this guys, which occurs every thursday at 7:00 pm, in the place called "Espaco Cultural 512", João Alfredo Street, 512 at the Downtown District.
