Prague

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Prague
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Country:
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Czech Republic
Population: 1.218.644
Licence plate: PHA
Major roads: D1, D5, D8, D11
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Prague (Praha) is the capital of the Czech Republic.

Hitching out

North-East, towards Mlada Boleslav, Liberec, Goerlic

Take the metro line B (yellow) to the last station, Cerny Most, then continue in the same direction. About 10 minutes down the road there is a motorway bridge. Pass under it and turn right to get on the motorway. Continue until you reach the railway bridge and hitch just before it. The problem is, that people don't usually go that way if they are going north.

North, North-West, towards Dresden, Berlin

You can also get to an easily reachable petrol station on the motorway getting north walking. You must go to Letňanská (e.g. bus 186 or 233 from Palmovka). Then going down from the bus, you can see the entrance of the motorway straight ahead. Put yourself so you have the motorway on your right, then cross the street (going north then), and then the parkings, and go behing the buildings, looking for a small bridge (“most” in czech), going above the motorway. From there you will see the petrol station. There are not so many people stopping there, but they all are (almost) going in the good direction. Just ask if they are going north (“sever”) or if they can just let you on the next petrol station (“příští pumpa”/“prschieschtee pumpa”), where there will be normally more cars.

Second option

You need to get to the first big petrol station OMV with McDonalds on D8(E55). From “metro Letňany” take bus (166, 233, 140, 210) to the stop “Obchodní centrum Čakovice”. Then on the other side of the road take bus (202) and ride one stop to “Na Lukách” or you can walk there for 10 minutes. The bus stop “Na Lukách” is very close to D8(E55) motorway and the petrol station you need. From that petrol station you can hitch-hike to Dresden directly or to the last petrol station OMV before Lovosice. The hitch-hiking position there is also good.

Warning: If you are passing through Dresden, take a look on Dresden hitchwiki page.

Third option

Use the third option, if you don't wan't to go with so many busses. Just take the red metro line (C) to the terminal station Letňany and then walk from there to the spot marked by Fatidik. It is 300m walking from there. Walk to the street Tupolevova and at the first crossing left into the Beranovych until the end, then right and straight until you see a small walking path leading you to the service station. There are not so many cars and you may wait a little long if you are two male hitchers.

West, towards Plzen, Nürnberg

From metro Zlicin (line B, yellow), take bus nr 380 or 308 to Rudna. The village main road goes straight through it. Stop around the center of the village. You ll see the higway passing as a bridge on your right. It's about 5-10 min walking to the petrol station. Avoid going into Plzen or getting dropped off on the bypass. It's better to try to find a direct ride to Germany from the last petrol station before Plzen.

Another option is to take a tram to Motol, that's where the motorway link starts. Not a perfect place, but cars are not too fast and there are quite a lot of Germans passing.

East, towards Brno, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, Kraków

From metro Opatov (line C, red) follow noise to the motorway. Walk along the road about 5 minutes, keep going over the crossroad and the bridge over the motorway (see second map). Now you might see other hitchhikers on the sliproad. Be careful and stay on the slip road, not on the motorway (sometimes police passes by). Average waiting time is less than one hour. From the bridge you can see the petrol station 'Újezd u Průhonic' – it's about 1.5 km by motorway, but it isn't a good place.

Hitchhikers at Újezd u Průhonic petrol station. Regular local hitchers were about, as well as hitchers doing the race.

Second option

Use the petrol station, it is a good place, easier to reach and you'll get rides quickly. From metro Opatov (line C, red) climb the steps to the motorway. Look on the bus stop timetables for the stop “K Sukovu” on route 324, 363 or 385 (you are going south, the buses should leave every 15 minutes, and you can use the same ticket that you got on the metro). Get to K Sukovu – you'll know you're there when you see the petrol station to your right. From K Sukovu the petrol station is a 150 m walk over the motorway bridge.

Tom shared this spot with about 20 other hitchhikers during a race in April 2007 (most started at the sliproad spot described above, but just got dumped at this petrol station). While his teammates fell asleep on the grass for 3 hours (!), he was able to chat with other hitchhikers and drivers, and get ride offers towards Brno, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna and Kraków. The average waiting time was 20–30 minutes, plus there were several truck drivers promising longer lifts after a few hours' rest.

Third option

If you're lazy walking long ways till you reach the hitchspot, you should try option three:

  • Take Metro C till Chodov
  • leaving the metro entry turn right into road Roztylska until you reach the roundabout
  • the 2nd exit of the roundabout is yours, then again turn the first right into road Kloknetova
  • walk straight through the path in the bush, cross the street, enter the gas station and hitch a ride =)

The gas-station is a smaller one right on the motorway, but even if you won't find a long-distance ride in the first 10 minutes you can ask drivers to bring you to the next gas-stations which is 10 minutes away by car.at this bigger gas station lots of people stop to refill and are going direction Brno, Vienna and Ceske Budejovice Budweis.

On the Viva con Agua Hitchhike Race in 2009 one team chose that spot and it worked our pretty good!

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