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*''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 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..
When you go from Skopje to Kumanovo and later to Serbia or Belgrade. In Kumanovo you have one big petrol station near high way(you can not miss it) and it is very good place to hitchhike there. When you arrive at border with Serbia and maybe stuck there even there is a lot of traffic going by. It is better after you cross border and enter in Serbia, than just walk maybe about 100 hundred meters forward because there is a lot of truck going to Belgrade or some other towns in Serbia. Truck use different entrance to border and that entrance is just a little bit further than entrance for normal cars, you will see it. If you do not want to pay for bus in Skopje to go toward Serbia, you could just walk from main bus terminal in Skopje and follow way to high way that leads to Serbia. You will need to walk about 20 till 25 minutes and you will coma at first petrol station, there you can hitchhike.
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