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There you will find a bus station next to the ===North, nortwest towards [[La Serena]] (Ruta 5. Don't go there. Also don't go to the Ramp. The cars are just locals who won't go far.)===
BUT: Go to "Puente Cal Y Canto" metro station (2nd line) and find Avenida La Paz, follow this street to La Paz Terminal and from there take a bus with the main road of the Ruta 5sign "Panamericana" (800 pesos, if youre lucky - for free). There will be Take a seat in front and search for a good spot to waityou like or ask the driver for "lugar para hacer dedo", perhaps he knows. The cars go damn fast, but there There is space to pull over the car. One hitchhiker waited almost 1 hour to get out. Switching from the for example one on-ramp near big truck station, cars are going about 60 - 70 km/h so its possible to the side and the main road until finally a truck stopped for me.hitchhike
===North, nortwest towards [[La Serena]] (Ruta 5)===
Go to "Puente Cal y Canto" metro station (2nd line) and find Avenida La Paz, follow this street to La Paz Terminal and from there take a bus with the sign "Panamericana" (800 pesos, if youre lucky - for free). Take a seat in front and search for a spot you like or ask the driver for "lugar para hacer dedo", perhaps he knows. There is for example one on-ramp near big truck station, cars are going about 60 - 70 km/h so its possible to hitchhike, I waited less then 30 min there.
Border crossing to Argentina is quite straightforward, however, at least when coming from Chile, many trucks do their paperwork really fast and may not want to wait you. Even though in the middle of nowhere in the mountains, the border is busy so you got good chances to get a ride to Mendoza, Buenos Aires or even Brasil once you get there.
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'''Santiago''' is the capital and by far the largest city of [[Chile]].
== Hitchhiking out ==
===West towards [[Valparaíso]], [[Viña del Mar]] (Ruta 68)===
Get to the metro station ''Pajaritos.'' From there take a bus J12 to ''Ciudad de los Valles'' (you need a Bip! card to use buses, no cash or single tickets). The bus stop is 100m to the left from the metro station. The bus goes along the motorway 68 and there are three service stations on the way not far from each other, first Petrobras, then COPEC and finally Shell. You can get off at '''''Pasarela Pedro Jorquera''''' which is a first bus stop and it's located just after the motorway junction with Vespucio (Santiago Ring). Petrobras is located 600m from the bus stop but it's better to walk for another 1km and get to COPEC. Even though there's not that many trucks there's much more movement of the cars and getting a lift is very easy.
Another option is to hitch just at the beginning of the motorway near the Pajaritos metro station. Walk out of the intermodal onto the Ruta 68, there is space to pull over right at the exit (where the buses pull out). Most traffic leaving Santiago this way goes direct to Valparaiso, a reliable and easy hitch!
=== South towards Rancagua (Ruta 5)===
Go to "[[San Bernardo]]" - either by Microbus microbus or by hitchhiking. I hitch hiked there but had to wait 1 hour to get to San Bernardo.There you will find a bus station next to the Ruta 5.
===North, northeast towards [[Los Andes]], [[San Felipe]] and [[Mendoza]] [[Argentina|(AR)]] (Ruta 57)===
If from there you're offered a ride to San Felipe or Los Andes, beware! Neither are particularly good spots to be when heading to Mendoza. From San Felipe you'll need to pass through Los Andes, which spreads out over a wide area, and both are some distance west of the customs facility for trucks going to Argentina. The split in the highway to the south of Los Andes, where it heads northwest to San Felipe and northeast to the customs facility and Mendoza, is isolated and with fast-moving traffic. Instead, ask to be dropped at the next tollbooth (Peaje Chacabuco on Googlemaps, though locals I rode with had another name for it). It's about 10km south of where Ruta 57 splits south of Los Andes, away from any local Santiago traffic and with ample space for cars to pull over; a much better spot than Peaje Las Canteras or the COPEC station.
==Public transport==
