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Free option is going up to Vodno mountain or Matka canyon and camp there. Vodno you can reach also by foot if not there is a bus taking you until the funicular (pretty expensive) and after you continue by foot. Matka by foot is a bit further (10 km) but easy to hitch to and also there's public transportation leading you there. If you are without tent on Vodno top there are also some empty wooden houses perfect to sleep inside with a mat. [[Fedecicco|Fedecicco]]
If you're looking for a Hostel, check the Internet. There is a big choice of good places meanwhile.
To take a taxi is around 1 euro at most.
If you don't mind burning the midnight oil, there's an all night game/internet café at the train station called "Insomnia gaming club". 40 dinars an hour. Exchange office can also be found, downstairs.
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'''Skopje''' (North Macedonian Cyrillic: Скопје) is the capital of [[Republic of Macedonia|North Macedonia]]. It's home to around 500,000 people.
== Hitching in and around ==
Skopje has a ring road.
If your driver is going into Skopje but you wish to continue onward towards another direction, the ring road cannot be used to go around the city and then leave from a different exit. In the direction towards [[Kumanovo]], for instance, cars are driving very fast and there are no bus stops or petrol stations where they can stop. It may well be faster to go into Skopje and then take a bus towards a recommended hitchhiking spot. If you are coming from SKP airport, here ([https://goo.gl/maps/8iAEgKzVa182 1]) you can catch locals who go towards the city. Alternatively, from Petrovec there is bus #53, the round trip is 150 MKD, half the price of Vardar Express, but you have to walk.
== Hitchhiking out ==
For hitchhiking to the north you can take a bus from the train station of Skopje to the direction of Kumanovo, and tell the bus driver to drop you at the pay-toll before Kumanovo. The bus is really cheap, and at the pay-toll you have a good chance to find a lift. If the bus driver doesn't understand English you can use the words "autostop" and "patarina", which means pay-toll. When you are at a pay-toll, also the coaches will stop to ask you if you want to go with them, but not for free. But be careful, a bus ticket from Skopje to Belgrade isn't more like 20 euro.
After the Serbian border the motorway from North Macedonia turns into a normal road, but as it is the only road from Skopje to Belgrade, you have the same amount of traffic like on the motorway.
The E871 road towards Sofia splits off a few kilometres after Kumanovo. On Sundays, however, there are very few cars at the [[Kriva Palanka-Kyustendil border crossing]], and from Skopje on Sundays it may well be faster to go up to [[Niš]] in [[Serbia]] and then back down into Bulgaria instead of choosing this crossing.
*''After hitchhiking quite a few times out of Skopje in November and December 2011, I believe that it is best to take any bus (there are many of them going there) to Avtokomanda and leave the bus like 2 or 3 stops after Avtokomanda itself (a place where city buses are left for night). The stop is situated as soon as the bus goes off the main road leading out of the city. This will take place after passing under a bridge. Directly there you will see a petrol station which was always full of cars. I would get a lift there not more than after 5 or 10 minutes on average. I spoke few sentences in North Macedonian (related to asking for a ride especially) and knew Russian so that enabled me to address all the people. So I guess there is no point in taking buses all the way to patarinas near Kumanovo etc. Half of the cars at this petrol station go to Kumanovo anyway. This is the place [http://g.co/maps/abd3e on the map]. Good luck! [[User:Rozwal|Rozwal]]''
*Definitely agree with Rozwal, i have been brought to an enormous truck park 5-10 km after the petrol station in avtokomanda and wasted there 4hrs (july 2012)..so wait at the petrol station, lots of people go at least till kumanovo, and there there is another big petrol station. Alternative is also hitch on the motorway trucks and cars do stop even when they go 100km/h..
== Sleeping ==
Free option is going up to Vodno mountain or Matka canyon and camp there. Vodno you can reach also by foot if not there is a bus taking you until the funicular (pretty expensive) and after you continue by foot. Matka by foot is a bit further (10 km) but easy to hitch to and also there's public transportation leading you there. If you are without tent on Vodno top there are also some empty wooden houses perfect to sleep inside with a mat.
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