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The M27 motorway goes through the city. Hitchhiking within the city is fairly easy if you don't mind waving away hoards of taxis.
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== Hitching out ==
4. If you're going to Didube anyways, you can reduce the walking distance to 0 by taking a marshrutka towards Mtskheta and tell the driver to let you out when the S1 national road splits off from the Mtshketa road (see photo). Or take marshrutka 11, which goes all the way from Tsereteli metro station to the end of the city, near where the highway joins the Tbilisi Bypass. Get off at the last stop, by the turn to Jvari monastery. Both of these routes also pass spot #1 (above), so it may be easier to get off there if you don't have GPS and/or don't speak Georgian/Russian (just tell the driver to stop when you're passing the Tbilisi Mall, which you can't miss).
54. Another option is If you're going to get Didube anyways, you can reduce the walking distance to Metro Station Sarajishvili 0 by taking a marshrutka towards Mtskheta and walk over tell the bridge across driver to let you out when the highway to one of S1 national road splits off from the petrol stations Mtshketa road (you can see both of them photo). Or take marshrutka 11, which goes all the way from Tsereteli metro station to the bridge) and start hitchhiking north from there. This is a slightly less common route out end of the city but should also get you , near where the highway joins the Tbilisi Bypass. Get off at the last stop, by the turn to the main motorway out Jvari monastery. Both of Tbilisithese routes also pass spot #1 (above), and so it's a very easy spot may be easier to get off there if you don't have GPS and/or don't speak Georgian/Russian (just tell the driver to from most parts of stop when you're passing the city since the metro is quite fastTbilisi Mall, cheap, and easywhich you can't miss).
Hitching out towards Take metro till Isani. When you leave the metro cross the street and head right to the South is easy as piesouth. Follow this road until a big round about after maybe 10 minutes. Hitch Cross the street from anywhere in the city center or take a Marshrutka to right and follow the street which leads over the river with the ''Ortachala'' bus stationbride. You might have At the traffic light you cross the the street to take another short ride the left and than to where your right side of the roads to Rustavi and Merneulitraffic, Armenia, Azerbaijan split up. Don't listen to anybody who tells you that you cannot hitch out reach the beginning of the city in this direction or out of Merneulihighway. You see on the right side the green highway sign. ItThere after the crossroad about 100 meters it's very very easy! Marshrutka #118 (1 Lari in 2016) is a good optionpossible to stop cars. You can take it in Marjanishvili square or in Baratashvili The street. It goes to Ponitchala where is S4 and don't give the huge sign attention before the roads to Rustavi (direction to Azerbaijan) and Merneuli (to Armenia) split upbride. If you head for the armenian border be sure to You must get out a car at the tank stop where highway next to the roads split!river.
Sept. 2017 update. There If you are not lucky and get an direct ride after 6 or 7 kilometers there is no bus #118 but another option is bus #102. It leaves at baratashvili street in front of the city wall. It takes first round about 40 min. until which spilts the way to Azerbaijan border to the left (Rustavi) and to the bus turns right(Marneuli) to the Armenian border. Both borsercrossings are walkable, leaving you don't need a ride which crosses the main street. The stop is called Gulbani Street (north)borders. Just opposite of To Armenia it you can start hitchhiking as there is a good spot for cars to stop and you are almost in the next cityroad S6.
March 2019 update
Minibus (marshrutka) 118 does exist! (0.80 Lari). There’s construction works happening on the highway but the hitchhiking spot at the roundabout where the road splits (as mentioned before) is still a good place to hitchhike to Armenia. Drumroots waited 5 minutes before getting a direct lift to Yerevan.
In June 2015, there was a big landslide about 2km down the road from Tskneti, which completely destroyed a part of the road and wiped away the forest around it. As of September 2015, nothing has been repaired.Add info pls
From Tbilisi, take the road towards Kojori instead. To get out of the city center, you can take any of the buses going to Mtatsminda Park and get off where the road splits to Kojori.
If the Tskneti road is repaired, which should take a long time considering the extent of the destruction, you can get on buses 34 or 82 to get you from the city center to Tskneti.== Nomadwiki & Trashwiki ==
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'''Tbilisi''' (or Tblisi, Tiflis) is the capital of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] and the country's largest city.
=== Northwest towards [[Gori]], [[Kutaisi]], [[Samtredia]] or North towards [[Gudauri]], [[Russia]], [[Vladikavkaz]] ===
The best way out of Tbilisi depends where you currently are in the city. Basically anywhere along the road north from Tbilisi will work well for hitchhiking. Bus routes are on google maps but marshrutkas are not, so if you haven't learned how to read Georgian yet, you might find it easiest to take a bus to the spot. Not far from Tbilisi, the road splits, with one direction going towards Kutaisi and Batumi and the other way towards Gudauri and Russia. Georgian drivers often seem to think that if they're not going all the way to your destination, taking you won't help. Of course, as hitchhikers, we know that any distance helps as long as it gets you to a decent spot to continue hitchhiking. So, if the driver is going the other way at the Russia/Kutaisi intersection, just make it clear that you want them to take you to the intersection before they drive off. Asking "do pa-ve-rot?" (Russian for to the turn) and signaling a cross with your hands usually works.
1. A great hitchhiking spot is about 200 meters after Tbilisi Mall. Look for the hitchwiki sticker on a sign post just before the gas station. There's plenty of space for a car to pull over and everybody driving past that point is going out of the city. It's quite common to encounter other hitchhikers here but even so, it's Georgia, you won't wait long. Several marshrutkas go to Tbilisi Mall and it's even possible to hitchhike there from in the city. Look for marshrutkas 44, 51, 87, 60, 116, 117, or bus 121 to Tbilisi Mall. If you're really in a hurry, taxis to the mall are 10-15 lari from the city center. You can take Marshrutka 121 for example from Didube metro station. Its very easy from all over the city.
3. One hitchhiking point is about 2km from the ''Didube'' metro/bus station, near the statue of David the Builder on horseback. This spot is along the same road as the previous two, just closer to the city (meaning you have more taxis and city traffic, but it's very easy to get to Didube from anywhere in the city).
[[File:tbilisinorth.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Hitchhikers going north from the turn off the Mtskheta road]]
Also you can take airport bus from the "Station Square" (main station) and leave it before airport turn (you will see big statue and bridge). Bus turns to the right and if you missed the turn it is no problem, you will walk about 50 m. back to the road.
Second option:Take bus 37 towards the Airport. The bus leaves the city and goes east on the Kakheti highway. After some time on the highway the bus will turn right onto Europe Street (the road to the Airport). At the highway intersection there is a big statue on a column on the left window of the bus. Get out at the first stop and walk back to the Kakheti Highway (about 500 metres). You can hitch there or walk for 5 mins to the traffic light and a gas station. This highway is quite busy with cars. Waiting time could be long, because of the volume of traffic, with many cars not going directly east. The further down the Highway you get/walk the better.
=== Southeast towards [[Rustavi]], [[Merneuli]], [[Armenia]] and [[Azerbaijan]] ===
=== Southwest towards Manglisi, Tsalka ===
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