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 '''Granada''' is a main city in [[Andalusia]], a region in [[Spain]].
== Hitchhiking out ==
=== Northeast towards [[Valencia]], [[Barcelona]] ===
 Get any of the entrances next to the A44 and use the direction of Lorca/ Guadix (A92 and later A91). Best thing would be to wait for someone who actually is going into that direction since the A44 crosses the A92 after 5-10 minutes. You can as well hitch directly on entry to A92. If you get a lift going only to Guadix, you can leave on a gas station just before Guadix. From there you can ask for lifts towards Baza, Lorca, Murcia. There is not much traffic there so even lift to Baza might be worth of taking. One of the next places you can get to is Puerto Lumbreras where is the highway spliting. If your driver goes to the coast you can get droped on a gas station in Puerto Lumbreras. The station is out of highway so there is a lot of local traffic but you should be able to get lift to Lorca from where you can hitchhike on one of the junctions lift to Murcia. The fastest option could be to leave on a Repsol gas station shortly after Librilla. It is the only gas station between Lorca and Murcia which is directly on the highway. On highways in south spain there are many gas stations which are out of the highways and even though they are next to the highway near to the junctions they are usualy very empty and the few cars who come there are local so you should stick always to the gas stations which are directly on the highway. From the gas station in Librilla you can hitch a lift with everyone going over Murcia in direction Elche/Alicante/Valencia. Shortly after Murcia near to town Santomera there is a nice Repsol gas station. If your driver doesn´ t go further then Elche or Alicante you should leave here and search idealy direct lift to Valencia. There are two diferent highways between Murcia and Valencia. One option is A31 from which you turn on A33 and A35. A31, A33 and A35 are autovias which means they are free so probably more drivers go this way. If you would get a lift just part of the way it will be dificult to find a good spot to hitchhike. First good station would be after la Font de Figuera. It is recomendable to wait for a lift which takes you at least there. Other option from Murcia to Valencia is to go via Alicante and then by AP7 to Valencia. On AP7 drivers need to pay toll so there is not that many cars ussually. There is a gas station between Elche and Alicante from where you could search lift to Ap7 on which there are then couple of gas stations. It is recomended to searcch lift from Santomera directly to Valencia as if you take shorter lift it is likely to get stuck somewhere. If you are on A35 and your driver goes to only Valencia and you go further north you can leave on a gas station after Alberic and Massalaves. From there you can search lift going to Sagunto or further north. IF you are on AP7 you might as well want to leave on some gas station and search lift to Sagunto. there is as well a gas station on a highway ring around Valencia which might be also good place to change cars but you should make sure that your driver is really going by this station. If you get over Valencia to Gas station shortly before Sagunto you succesfully managed to get from south spain and now it is easy. From Sagunto until Barcelona there are couple of good gas stations and it should be fairly easy to get to Barcelona. If you go towards France leave on gas station Porta de Barcelona which is positioned just few kilometres before Barcelona and is a good spot for searching lift to Girona or France.Leaving from south Spain is usually quite time taking so for the way from Granada to Barcelona you can count about 3 days on the highways. Try to never get to small gas stations out of highway.
=== East towards [[Murcia]], [[Valencia]], West towards [[Sevilla]], [[Málaga|Malaga]] ===
Go with the bus '''122'''(Timetables http://terapiaquantica.es/linea_autobuses.pdf) from ''Caleta'' or ''Estacion de Autobuses'' to the first stop in Albolote, walk there about 5 mins towards the A92, which is the Motorway between Sevilla and Murcia, take a view on the right and choose the petrol station that leads you the direction you want to go. It is a really good spot, takes between 2 minutes and 8 hours. Direction Sevilla there is one more of the good petrol stations, right after Lorca. The other way you have one directly when you come close to guadix, might be like exit 296.
June 2013- From Granada bus station- walk away from Take the centre crossing two roundabouts until you reach a petrol station. Managed to get a hitch from here to a 'better' petrol station close metro to the last stop "Albolote in about 10 minutes", then walk north towards the highway (ca. Waited at this petrol station for 2 1/2 hours with no real luck, this -3 km). There is a big petrol gas station with a restaurant but it is just before on the road splits into those heading for Murcia (our destination) and Madrid- everybody here is going to Madrid. Walked further down the road and came to a roundabout which splits left handside of the road (before a bridge), this spot would definitely have people going in over the right direction but highway. It is slightly dangerous. We were low on time so sadly had to abort the mission- but did manage to get a hitch from the roundabout back to Granada in 10 minutesreally good spot. We were also told that the traffic was a bit slower at Direction Sevilla there is one more of the good petrol station because it was Sundaystations, right after Lorca.  
Works not so good in direction Malaga.
Direction Malaga is completely Spanish typical. That means 'Get lucky or you're screwed.'. We were 3 people and one driver could only take 2 of us so I just stayed there for the next 8 hours and nothing happened. Went back to town, took a 5 euro bus south to Motril and camped near the city as its pretty small.
==== Direction Málaga via Santa Fé ====
We walked all the way from Granada to the first petrol station in Santa Fé, which is definitely not recommandable (but doable in a way). However, talk to people there and hope that the petrol station guy doesn't mind. He did when we tried, but got lucky in time. It took us one car to get all the way to Málaga! (September 2010)
I went We walked all the way from Granada to the first petrol station in Santa Fé, which is definitely not recommandable (but doable in a way).  From the end of Granada and It took me about 1 minute to you can hitchhike a car to Santa . If you´ll go to  In Santa you should check really nice hot springs which !! - No. The hot springs are only few kilometers from the town.closed!
== Hitching In ==
== Sleep ==
Just after the district Albaicin there is mountains where you can find good places for a tent. It's about 30 minutes on foot from the city center or from Alhambra. Locals who live there do not care so much about tourists with a tents. Also in this hills there are some caves where people live. Maybe you'll be lucky to find any empty cave for your own or someone invite you.
__NOTOC__Just after the district Albaicin or after cemetery there is mountains where you can find good places for a tent. It's about 30 minutes on foot from the city center. Locals who live there do not care so much about tourists with a tents. Also in this hills there are some caves where people live. Maybe you'll be lucky to find any empty cave for your own or someone invite you. Church serves a free food and offers a free shovers == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki == {{IsIn|Andalusianomadwiki}}[[trash:Granada]][[nomad:Granada]]
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