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2 guys, Kiwi & British, currently hitching across south of Turkey towards Syria. Absolutely no problems finding rides, haven't waited for more than 30 mins for a lift. Everyone's very generous and will usually offer to buy us food etc. or will invite us to do what they're doing for the day (beach, picnics, etc.). Would like to add thumbs to the Turkish map, but google maps doesnt work in Turkey. If someone else wants to do it, we got rides in Bodrum, Akyaka, Ortaca, Fethiye, Saklikent, Kas, Olympos, Antalya, Konya, Goreme, Kayseri, Sivas, Trabzen. Will update this as we go.Also, creating/updating pages as I can --[[User:Alecofnz|Alecofnz]] 14:22, 21 July 2010 (UTC)  :East of [[Fethiye]] along Mediterranean coast is harder territory, at least that was so in my experience—expect waits up to two hours under the scorching sun of [[Alanya]] and [[Anamur]]. I hope you'd have a better luck, though. :) And please don't forget to update/create relevant town articles when you are back at home (or while on the go, if possible). [[User:Vidimian|Vidimian]] 15:47, 17 July 2010 (UTC)  :We didn't experience that at all, Vidimian.. Apart from one time when we were on the wrong road, and going somewhere that no one goes to, the longest we waited for a rides was about 45 minutes. --[[User:Alecofnz|Alecofnz]] 13:39, 29 July 2010 (UTC) ::Oh, that's great. However, as far as I can follow from the above list you've been adding, you have headed inland after Antalya, which makes my above comment nullified—both of the places I've mentioned as having long waits are on the coast east of Antalya. On the other hand, if you have really traversed those places (Alanya & Anamur) without waiting a significant length of time beside the road, then you deserve a rather big applause. :) [[User:Vidimian|Vidimian]] 23:46, 30 July 2010 (UTC) :::Ah, yeah, after Antalya, our plans changed, and we hitched across the country to Georgia instead.. People inland seemed a lot more hospitable than those on the south west coast (My theory is that they're not used to tourists). Everyone offered us water; Most people would offer us some form of food (usually fruit); One family even pulled over and after we determined that they were going in the wrong direction for us, they changed their plans for the day and shared their picnic with us on the side of the road. The black sea leg was incredibly easy.. picked up by one of the first 10 cars every time (have heard the same story from others we met in Georgia who also hitched along the black sea) --[[User:Alecofnz|Alecofnz]] 13:05, 4 August 2010 (UTC) ::::I agree with your theory that wherever there is little tourism, people are friendlier towards hitchhikers and thus providing real quick lifts in Turkey. I guess that's because most local people in touristy localities think of hitchhikers as, true or not (and most likely not!), "those with heavy wallets but are penurious and/or looking for adventure". [[User:Vidimian|Vidimian]] 07:06, 6 August 2010 (UTC) == Re-org == I took the liberty of pushing around a few things in the article to make the intro more like an intro and to put a bit more order into it... also, I added an index, which I think there should be.--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 22:27, 6 August 2010 (UTC)