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Take the bus #5 and go with it until it enters the motorway. Along the motorway there are lots of gas stations, but it is recommended to stay in the bus until it leaves the motorway out of Sofia. Then ask the bus driver to get out of the bus, otherwise you will land in the little village of Lozen in the middle of a beautiful nowhere. You will stand on a motorway junction with directions north, east to [[Plovdiv]] and west to [[Sofia]]. Go down the ramp to direction [[Plovdiv]] and you will see some shops where people stop next to the motorway. Try standing on the hard shoulder to get a lift or ask people there. Nearly all traffic there goes to [[Plovdiv]] or even further east.
If you don't take bus 54 it is walkable to walk for about a mile until there's a big space to pull over (about twenty minutes walking). Jass stood here for about 15 minutes until getting a ride to the point mentioned above.=== West towards [[Serbia]] {{E|80}} ===
[[User:Guaka|guaka]] and Erga waited about 25 minutes for a ride with a truck to the [[Kalotina-Dimitrovgrad border crossing]].'''Option 1''' Lukoil petrol station
However, it took Jass 4 hours just Take metro to get Slivnitsa and than bus 54 three stops till Magazin Metro 2. Or walk from metro Slivnitsa up E80/8 highway 3.5 km to same bus stop.There is Lukoil fuel station and a bus stop on the border, and he had long, long waiting times highway '''Option 2''' Bus 54 towards Kalotina all the way to the end. It ends on the highway to Belgrade on a very good hitchhiking spot. But bring some cardboard with you from the city center since there aren't any trash cans. This road enters Serbia at the [[BelgradeKalotina-Dimitrovgrad border crossing]], despite how incredible hitchhiking . Update 2022: It is in the rest of by far the country. Try not best to accept rides take a bus out to places the highway, like the 54, instead of standing in near the city on the middle of nowherenr 8 highway. As alwaysIf you are near the city you may wait hours, it helps if you have even get a ride. Not recommended. === Southwest towards [[mapSkopje]] === Take tram number 19 in the direction ''Knyazhevo'' all the way to the last stop. You will recognize the last stop because it turns off the road to know what make a tight loop and doubles back on its route. As you hop off the tram, come back on the main road and keep walking the direction of tram To get out of city you need to expectwalk 2 km till Lukoil fuel station Or After getting out of tram catch bus number 59 after about 8 minutes on the bus get out at Ul.Mala Koriya bus stop and look for Lukoil fuel station === North towards [[Veliko Tarnovo]], [[Bucureşti|Bucharest]], [[Varna]] ===
=== North towards [[Bucharest]], [[Veliko Tarnovo]] and [[Varna]] ===
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'''Sofia''' ([[Bulgaria]]n: ''София'') is the capital and largest city of [[Bulgaria]], lying in the west of the country.
== Hitching Out out ==
=== East towards [[Plovdiv]], [[Edirne]] and [[Istanbul]] ===
=== West towards [[Nis]], [[Belgrade]] and [[Budapest]] == First option =====Find any underground/Take the metro station (Blue blue line no. 1) and take the metro to Tsarigradsko shose, the Slivnitsa Inter Expo Center. You have Metro (Сливницаshop, mall) stop (direction: Obelya - Обеля). When you get outon your right, keep walking 1 km, you will see reach a big crossroad - follow the direction out of the citytraffic light that is perfect to hitch, you might not even wait more than 5 minutes. Perfect stop. There are roadsigns that say [[Belgrade]] - Some experiences suggest that it is difficult to get a direct ride to Istanbul from here unless you start as early in the morning as possible when the relevant traffic for Istanbul leaves the right directioncity. You Also, waiting times can try to get a lift there but there be longer than five minutes. Shorter rides are still too many local commuters passing. It is much better easier to take a bus nocatch. 54 towards ''Bozhurishe'' ===== Second option ===== Take metro and get off at the Republika to stop called Младост 1 (when Mladost 1). Walk north along Yerusalim street until you get to the main road Tsarigradsko Shose. You should see Metro hypermarket)Carrefour shopping centre around. There is Then take bus number 5 direction Lozen and go with it until it leaves main road on a petrol station cloverleaf junction. Get off on the next stop and traffic lights so go back to the traffic is pretty slowjunction. (Take the north exit from the subway, the bus makes You will stand on a left turn at the motorway junctionwith directions north, before heading into east to [[Plovdiv]] and west to [[Sofia]]. Go down the right ramp to direction, it doesn't [[Plovdiv]] and you will see some shops and bars where people stop at next to the motorway. Try standing on the spot you would expect it hard shoulder to stopget a lift or ask people there.)Nearly all traffic there goes to [[Plovdiv]] or even further east
Take tram 22 in direction east, get off at the last stop. The road parallel to the tramline runs directly out of the city, its possible to hitch anywhere from here but I would suggest a better place after the ring road which isolates only the traffic running to the A2 motorway. 7 km up the road is a Shell petrol station, the last stop for gas before the motorway, you can either walk the 7 km straight up the road or if you look to the left you will see a carpark in front of a car dealership. This is the bus station, take either the 117, 90 or 12, all will run directly up the road and stop more or less in front of the Shell petrol station. You can choose either the petrol station or just up the road is also ideal for hitching. An even better option is to take the 90 and persist with it until you reach the end of a road village called Gorni Bogrov (Bulgarian: Горни Богров), where you can hitch-hike from the bus station directly with great success since it has a lot of room for stopping and cars drive slow.
=== South towards [[Blagoevgrad]] and , [[Thessaloniki]] === Take tram 5 to the last stop - the tram originates behind the court building (Съдебна палата) in the center of Sofia. Walk another 5-10 minutes in the same direction of the tram until it is clear you are out of that neighborhood where all the traffic is heading out of the city. A good place to stop is at or just after the last stop light so the drivers are already stopped and have time to see you. Or don't mess with the walking, take the bus #58 and go till it leaves the road for the village of Vladaya/Владая. If you are lucky a trucker will pick you up going all the way to Thessaloniki and on to Italy, otherwise the first 20 km are tricky (lot or cars going short distances) but after you pass Pernik you'll get a ride all the way to Blagoevgrad in no time.
== Hitching In ==
=== West from [[Plovdiv]], [[Edirne]] and [[Istanbul]] ===
If you're in a car continuing in the direction of Belgrade you can get off where they turn right, where it says something like "transit Belgrado". If you walk a bit further you will find a bus stop for bus #5.
== Transport between north and south ==
If you just want to get through the city as hitching from the direction of the Serbian [[Nis]] Niš to [[Greece]] to the south or opposite there's a quite useful bus to take. The number is 111 and goes around the ring on the west outskirts of the city. On the north, the end stop is just around some DIY shopping center, need to cross these to get to the ring. On the south the end is not the road to [[Greece]], so be aware to get off in time. == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki == {{nomadwiki}}
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