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=== East towards [[Plovdiv]], [[Edirne]] and [[Istanbul]] ===
Take metro and get to last stop called Младост 1 (Mladost 1). Walk north along Yerusalim street until you get to the main road Tsarigradsko Shose. You should see Carrefour shopping centre around. Then take bus number 5 direction Lozen and go with it until it leaves main road on a cloverleaf junction. Get off on the next stop and go back to the junction. You will stand on a motorway junction with directions north, east to [[Plovdiv]] and west to [[Sofia]]. Go down the ramp to direction [[Plovdiv]] and you will see some shops and bars where people stop next to the motorway. Try standing on the hard shoulder to get a lift or ask people there. Nearly all traffic there goes to [[Plovdiv]] or even further eastUpdate 2013: the last stop of line 1 (red) is not mladost anymore, but Tsarigradsko mall/congress centre, that is already on the big bd tsarigradsko to Plovdiv. You have Metro (shop, mall) on your right, keep walking 1 km, you will reach a traffic light that is perfect to hitch, never waited more than 5 minutes.
=== West towards [[Serbia]] {{E|80}} ===
Take the metro to the stop ''Slivnitsa'' (Сливница). Take bus 54 towards ''Bozhurishe'' or walk northwest along the avenue ''Slivnitsa'' for 2 km until you meet the Sofia ring road. You can hitch 200 metres after the intersection with the ring road already, but there is still a lot of local traffic.
* update 2013: Don't hitch straight after the intersection with the ring road!! it is a bad stop because cars don't have any space to stop and not all go to Serbia, lots still keep inside the city. I got stuck more than 3 hours waiting for a lift and was enough to stay on the bus for one extra stop (there is a petrol station luk oil) the lanes become 3 there is another traffic light and people picked me up in less than 5 minutes! [[User:Fedecicco|Fede]]
This road enters Serbia at the [[Kalotina-Dimitrovgrad border crossing]]. Try to get a lift straight to the border, as otherwise you may be stuck for a while at inconvenient spots.
== Public transport ==
* Inspectors on the busses may ask for a ticket for bigger baggages(your backpack will be considered like that). If you don't have ticket for baggage they most probably will fine you and expect for cash payment at the moment, threatening you with a fine of 200lev (100E) at the border. Of course it is not true and you can let them write down your name without paying any money.
* Ticket costs 1 lev (0.50 EUR)
* You can easily find tickets to use on the buses and trams if you look in the bins next to the bus stop. The tickets get validated by hole punching and it's really easy to find tickets with the same holes that the bus you will take. Just stamp a normal piece of paper and compare the holes on it with the ones on tickets which you find. Blackriding is also doable as controllers are not SO frequent. They do happen though.
==Sleep==
Sofia has lots of very nice parks where it's not really hard wild camp. Borisova gradina, near the stadium (metro stop kliment ohridski SU or Stadion vasil levski) is the most central one, and could be visited by people at night. Zapaden Park (western part of city, metro stop Vardar or Zapaden Park) is so much bigger and less transited, really perfect for camping, not so many dogs around either.
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