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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.  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.

One hitchhiking point 2. Another spot is not far accessible by bus 14 from the center (Rustaveli metro station, among others). The bus is very slow but also very cheap (50 tetri in 2017). Get off at the stop Agmashenebeli Ave #12 (stop ID 1179), continue walking forward across the big intersection, and hitchhike anywhere. There is still some local traffic at this point but nearly everyone going out of the city also drives by here, so you won't wait long. Make sure not to miss the stop or else the bus will turn around and you'Didube'' bus stationll be faced with the choice to walk quite a ways or run across the quite busy highway (well, near sometimes standing in the statue median of David the Builder on horsebackhighway with no clear way to the other side is a good way to get cars to stop for you....your choice).

However, 3. One hitchhiking north might be easier if you take a point is about 2km from the ''marshrutkaDidube'' from near Didube metro /bus station towards Mtskheta and tell , near the statue of David the Builder on horseback. This spot is along the same road as the driver previous two, just closer to let the city (meaning you out when the S1 national road splits off have more taxis and city traffic, but it's very easy to get to Didube from anywhere in the Mtshketa road (see photocity).

Another option is 4. If you're going to get to Metro Station Sarajishvili and walk over the bridge across the highway to one of the petrol stations (Didube anyways, you can see both of them from reduce the bridge) walking distance to 0 by taking a marshrutka towards Mtskheta and start hitchhiking from there. Expect some weird looks from the guys who work there, and they might even tell you to get the hell out. Most of them don't speak or understand English which will make it hard driver to make clear what let you're doing. But out when you're feeling lucky, go for it! <!-- Doesn't seem illegal, and insensitive, why? {Prinothe S1 national road splits off from the Mtshketa road (see photo) --> An easy option with little to no walking is to . Or take a bus or marshrutka to the stop Agmashenebeli Alley #13 [2573]11, which you can find on google maps by typing "tbilisi bus stop 2573". Bus 14 goes all the way from Rustaveli Tsereteli metro stationto the end of the city, and you can find other bus routes on google mapsnear where the highway joins the Tbilisi Bypass. You can hitchhike directly from Get off at the bus last stop or just walk until you find a clear spot where cars can pull over. Even though it's still in , by the city, it never took [[User:TBF|TBF]] more than 15 minutes turn to get a ride from this Jvari monastery. Both of these routes also pass spot even when hitchhiking with ski equipment #1 (10+ timesabove). A guy even picked up a group of 6 hitchhikers here once. Often the buses won't stop here unless you ask the driver, which likely requires some knowledge of Russian or Georgian, so a safer option is it may be easier to get off one stop earlier (#1179) and walk from there. Make sure to watch the map as you're going, because if you miss the stop, youdon'll t have GPS and/or don't speak Georgian/Russian (just tell the driver to walk quite a ways. If stop when you're on a different bus or other means of transportpassing the Tbilisi Mall, anywhere on the stretch of road between here to after Carrefour is very easy to hitchhikewhich you can't miss).

Take bus 37 (direction airport) from a station in Rustaveli ave. near Mc Donaldstowards the Airport. The bus leaves the city and enters goes east on the Kakheti highway after some time. After some time on the highway the bus driver will turn right onto Europe Street (at that point you should see the road to the Airport). At the highway intersection there is a big statue on a big column on the left window of the bus). Get out at the first stop and walk back to the big road Kakheti Highway (about 500 metres). you You can hitch there or walk for 5 mins to the traffic light and a gas station. Good luck! (waiting This highway is quite busy with cars. Waiting time: 3 guys - 20 minscould 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.)

=== Southwest towards ManglisiTake metro till Isani. When you leave the metro cross the street and head right to the south. Follow this road until a big round about after maybe 10 minutes. Cross the street from the right and follow the street which leads over the river with the bride. At the traffic light you cross the the street to the left and than to your right side of the traffic, Tsalka ===that you reach the beginning of the highway. You see on the right side the green highway sign. There after the crossroad about 100 meters it's possible to stop cars. The street is S4 and don't give the huge sign attention before the bride. You must get a car at the highway next to the river.

In June 2015, If you are not lucky and get an direct ride after 6 or 7 kilometers there was a big landslide is the first round about 2km down which spilts the way to Azerbaijan border to the left (Rustavi) and to the right (Marneuli) to the road from TsknetiArmenian border. Both borsercrossings are walkable, you don't need a ride which completely destroyed a part of crosses the borders. To Armenia it is the road and wiped away S6. I got an ride to Marneuli. There in the forest around itcentral round about I continued on S7 to Sadakhlo. As of September 2015, nothing has been repairedAfter this village is the border.

From Tbilisi, take the road === Southwest towards Kojori instead. To get out of the city centerManglisi, 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. =Tsalka = Public transport ==