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TOTAL = at least 32 060km Europe 2008 (Switzerland to Norway to Vienna) - 6978km (according to google maps)<br>Australia 2011 - 18 784km<br>->Around Darwin 100km<br>->Darwin-Katherine 450km<br>->Darwin->Canberra (Via Bourke, Tamworth, Dubbo) - 4575km<br>->Canberra->Darwin (Via Oodanatta track) - 4288km<br>->Perth->Uluru (Via Great Central Road)->Port Augustus->Broken Hill->West Wylong->Canberra 4722km <br>->Canberra->South Coast NSW-> Pt. Augusta->Esperance->Perth 4649km<br>Indonesia 2011: Bali->Jakarta through mtns: 1448km<br>Europe 2011: Athens->Belgrade: 1130km<br>Europe 2012: 38,361km<br>->Belgrade-Berlin-Belgrade: 3202km<br>->Belgrade->Timisoara->Cluj->Reghin->Suceava->Brasov->Sibiu->Hunedoara->Belgrade: 1783km<br>->Belgrade->Nis->Sofia->Belgrade: 800km<br>->Belgrade->Tulza->Sarajvo->Split->Zadar->Zagreb->Belgrade->Sofia: 1790km<br>->Sofia->Plovdiv Return: 294km<br>->Sofia->Belgrade->Oradea->Ruzomberok->Brno->Munster->Lyon (including getting lost): 3376km<br>->Lyon->Antwerp->Paris->Auch: 1862km <br>->Cape Finisterra->Porto->Talvira->Vigo->Gijon->Santandar->Barcelona: 3155km<br>->Barcelona->Avila->Toulous->Auch->Biscarosse-Plage->Brussels->Osnabruck->Berlin (+side trips): 4150km<br>->Berlin->Warsaw->Vilnius (including getting lost): 1300km<br>->Vilnius->Ambrasikiai->Vilnius->Warsaw->Krakow->Lukovista->Ruzomberok->Arad->(lost in Romanian mountains)->Sibiu->Zemica->Blagovegrad: 2952km<br>->Blagovegrad->Tserovo->Blagovegrad->Sofia->Belgrade: 800km (including local hitching between Tserovo and Svogue)<br>->Belgrade->Oradea->Cluj->Iasi->Chisinau->Soroca->Tiraspol->Odessa->Kyiv :2103km (plus local Transnistrian hitching)<br>Kyiv->Mikolaiv->Djankoi->Kerch->Simferopol->Yalta->Bakhchisaray->Odessa->Cahul->Cluj (not direct routes): 2891km<br>Cluj->Brasov->Bucarest->Istanbul: 1172km<br>Istanbul->Iznik->Bodrum: 826km<br>Crete: Chania->Sitia: 270km <br>Rhodos: 320km<br>Marmaris->Izmir->Konya->Kayseri->Cappadocia->Kayseri->Eskişehir->Izmit: 2069km<br> Izmit->Kutahya->Usak->Antalya->Ankara (got lost too): 1467km<br>Ankara->Avanos->Ihlara->Anamur->Antalya->Butterfly Valley-> Izmır: 1779km <br><b>2013</b><br>Izmir->Mersin->Iskenderun: 1125km<br>ferry to egypt...<br>Port Said->Taba->Saint Catherines->Suez->Cairo: 1066km<br>
Have kept a pretty accurate ride count and it stands at ~437 Total:)= 102,928km<br>
==My Advice==<b>Europe to Australia Overland</b><br><br>Rome-Thessaloniki - 3,358km (approximate, google maps is still unhappy with the Balkans)<br>Thessaloniki the Syrian Border - 3,032 km<br>Syria - not in total <br>Syrian Border to Kurdistan Border - 143 km<br>Kurdistan Border - around eastern Turkey - Georgian border - 3,900 km <br>Georgia - not in total <br>Azerbaijan - 800km <br>Kazakhstan - 5881km (approximately according to google maps) <br>China - July/Aug 2009 hitched approximately 11,500 km from Kaz border to shanghai and back to Kyrgz border<br>Kyrgyzstan - 2747km (approximate according to google maps) <br>Tajikistan - 1090km (approximate according to google maps) <br>Uzbekistan - 460km (approximate according to google maps) <br>/Afghanistan - not in total <br>Pakistan - From Nov-Jan 2010 hitched around 5450km (approximate according to google maps)<br>India (Feb-April 2010) - 7850 km <br>Nepal - April-July 2010 - not calculted<br>India - July- ? 2010 - Nepal border to Kailashahar, Tripura, around NE to Kolkata, across to agra, north to Leh, Kashmir to Golden Temple to Delhi to Kanyakumari to Kochi. Then to Munnar->Bangalore->Hyderabad->Mumbai->Surat->Ahmedabad->Kharan 14,943km<br> Bangkok to Singapore - 1838km<br>Singapore->Laos - 6227<br>Laos - not in total<br>Cambodia - 1520km<br>Cambodia->Bangkok->Singapore - 3024km <br>
BE PREPARED! Be ready for everythingOverland total: =73, have enough food766km *Syria, waterNepal, Georgia, shelter and clothing for you handle whatever conditions that could arise where you are.Laos is missing from total<br><br>
Refuse rides! or <b>Grand TOTAL = at the very least get out of the car when the chance presents itself if you have a bad feeling.I have never refused a ride but I should have. I have had bad experiences...not with guys coming onto me or getting robbed176, but I have been afraid for my life because they are such bad drivers. Or they have been having a domestic dispute with their partner. Have even had someone do a drug deal with me in the back and then had the client get into the car and snort a line of coke!694km km(according to google maps)</b><br>
Be a jack not in total - hitched sections of all trades. Always let the cars occupants express their opinions first. Shape what you say around what they have already said. You may be selling yourself out but it makes for much pleasanter rides with much more hospitality extended to youmy trip in Africa: South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Malawi.
Give prizes for awesome rides/milestones. For exampleHave kept a pretty accurate ride count and it stands at ~2300 (November, every 100 rides with something special for 500...any advice for me when I hit it? ;2010) :)
Know what you are getting yourself into. When you walk out on the road you are putting yourself in fates hands. Don't try to fight it, if the ride takes you back to somewhere you have already been, go with it. There is probably a reason for it. Trucks are a great resource if you want to get somewhere fast. Talking to truck drivers is also extremely rewarding because normally they have traveled extensively. However, you often miss out on lots of small things and truck drivers are normally limited in where they can stop. Truck drivers seemed to be more likely to pull over in Europe than elsewhere. Only had 1 ride out of over 100 in New Zealand with a truck. In Australia it was much the same but because of the vast empty spaces in Australia I did go to some truck stops. Some truck companies will not allow anyone but company staff in their vehicles. I found over 50% of drivers were willing to drive me but often they were going to the wrong destination. In Australia, you are much much more likely to get a ride with a truck if you ask a truck driver while he is pulled over. Don't get in trouble with the authorities! Know if hitching is illegal, or if it's just illegal on motorways. Police and especially border patrol can make your life miserable! :| =='''Future Trips'''My Advice== 2008 #1: Starting from Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario, Canada I will be trying to hitch to St. Johns Newfoundland before catching a flight to Africa on April 20th. Flying into Johannesburg and flying out of Nairobi, Kenya on August 19th to Zurich 2008-2009-2010? Staying with family for Sept/Oct in the alps. After that traveling overland to south-east asia before flying to New Zealand again. Route looks to head into Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Israel (?), Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Burma (?), Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore. After that....?
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==Hitching Experience==
'''Big Trips'''
''Australia (May-December 2007)'': Left Canberra and hitched to South Coast NSW. Proceeded onto Melbourne. Then flew to Tasmania for most of June. Went back to Melbourne and went to Adelaide which was home base for most of July. From there went to Mildura, Grampions, Geelong and Great Ocean Road and then back to Adelaide. Then went to Kangaroo Island before finally returning to Adelaide and headed north. Went through the Flinders Ranges as far as Blinman before turning onto the Oodnadatta Track and following it up to Williams Creek. *WARNING* Outback hitching is not impossible but if you leave the pavement carry ''at least 10L of water with you!'' Most people will stop and offer you water even if they won't offer you a ride. From William Creek took a ride back to the main highway and came out at Coober Pedy. Met up with a guy had met in Adelaide and got taken 200km off the highway to a Aborignal Reservation. Then continued up the center to Alice Springs. Did 150km of hiking along the West Macdonalds mtn ranges before continuing north all the way to Darwin. Went through Kakadu Park and then kept going west out of Katherine. Then left the main highway again to hitch the Gibb River Road through the Kimberly. *warning* do not attempt in the wet season, best times are at the start of the dry july-august. the later you leave it the less cars travel the road. It is possible to travel into the northern Kimberly (Kalamburu) but there are even less cars. Be prepared for minimum waits of 4 hrs up to a day. Then went to Broome, and continued down the west coast until detoured inland at Port Headland to go into Tom Price and Karijini National Park. Came out and continued down the west coast to Perth with detours at Exmouth, Denham and the Pinaccles. From Perth went through the South-west stopping at Margaret River first and then hiking along the Cape to Cape before meandering through to Pemberton. Did a section of hiking on the fabled Bibbulumn track before ending up in Albany. Starting hitching towards Espearance but ended up going into the Stirling Ranges (spectacular!) and eventually Wave Rock and back to Perth. Left Perth and ended going all the way to Adelaide in 3 days. Got one ride with a truck to Port Augusta and then another ride into Adelaide. Left to hitch to Mildura but upon arrival the friend who I was going to stay with wasn't there so ended up hitching 24 hrs straight to go from Adealaide to Canberra.
Trip pace varied between extremely fast paced (1000km a day) to very slow paced, stopping in places for up to a week.
''Europe-Australia overland'' : October 2008 - May 2011. <!-- I posted about hh in Central asia in the following thread:
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''around australia 2011'': hitched around Australia again in 2011
''Indonesia'': Went to a wedding and hitched from Bali to Jakarta
'''Small Trips'''
==Statistics==
Boat hitching: 40km around Singapore. 280km from Kos to Crete. more to come!
Only done km stats on my big trips:<br>
Ottawa-Montreal-NYC - about 980km or so according to google maps<br>Europe 2006(Finland to Spain)- 5830km (according to google maps)<br>
New Zealand - 4398km (according to google maps)<br>
Australia - 21 832km (according to google maps)<br>
Walk out the highway, put your hand in the air...see where the road takes you :)Surrender to the journey as much as possible!
