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== Personal Experiences ==
''Summer 2022: I really liked hitchhiking in Slovakia, it's easy (20min-1h) and people are friendly. Normally, you don't do a lot of kilometres in one ride, because people are moving from one small town to another.''
''The country is very beautiful despite the fact that in general it consists only of small towns but that's gives you an opportunity of easy camping. There are a lot of green zones and parks where you can camp. Locals tell that there are a lot of wild bears in the big national parks (as the Tatras), so be careful sleeping in the forest. '' --[[User:HHer-Vert|HHer-Vert]]
''Winter 2022: one of the worst experience in our hitchhikers life. A girl and a man, from Tatras at the Polish Border to Kosice: relatively easy way, 30 minutes wait (by -7 celsius, snowing and windy) for a 1 hour ride. But the next day, we decided to go to Bratislava from Kosice, taking the unfinished highway linking the 2 cities.. Terrible way. The spot to get out of Kosice were sketchy, on the side of the highway. We were visible from far even though it was foggy and with snow everywhere, there was plenty of space to pull over safely at a bus stop. Not the best spot but definitely doable. We waited 1h15 minutes by -7 celsius, a guy took us to a good gas station in Presov. Thought we were off the hook but there we spent an hour and fifteen minutes asking every car. The girl spoke polish so easily understandable by the slovaks, but every one was harsh, pretending not understanding. We were clean on ourselves, had a shower the day before. Eventually, after 1h15, a couple took us, they were going to Bratislava but they tried to hide it to us, just saying they could drive us somewhere else. After 2 hours ride without talking to us but talking low between them so that my polish friend couldn't understand, they told us to leave the car in Trencin, saying that it is a big city there so it should be easy to reach Bratislava. It never happened to us that drivers are so unfriendly and drop us before the destination ! So rude. But well, Trencin seemed to be a big city, we were on the main road to Bratislava, traffic was slow and we were at a bus stop at the exit of the city so plenty of space to pull over. Once again, we waited 1h30 minutes (after 4000km together with my friend, we generally wait 15min in average, and there in slovakia we waited 3 times 1h15 average by -7Celsius...). After a break in the warmth of the gas station shop, a dude took us, drove 220km/h and dropped us at a petrol station in Trnava where the 1st driver we asked took us to Bratislava ! It was one of our worst hitchhiking experience. Seeing this hitchwiki page I guess it was a load of bad luck.
--[[User:jurichezzbmx|jurichezzbmx]]
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