=== North towards [[Warsaw|Warszawa]], [[Gdańsk]] {{National Road Number Poland|7}} {{E|77}} ===
There are two common places: Start to hitchhike after the inner bypass on ''Opolska'' street - you can get there by buses number 139,132,172,105,102,207 - bus stop name is '''''Opolska estakada''''', but it is quite a busy spot. Magda and Ron decided to try to hitch while waiting for the bus in Opolska estakada and it worked! They found a ride with a truck driver all the way to Warszawa. Although, Nina_Unexia followed their example twice, and it wasn't the luckiest place.
A better option is to take the bus number 217,247,277 until the stop '''''Kuźnicy Kołłątajowskiej'''''. Here there is a lot of space for cars to pull over and many cars are going even all the way to Warsaw.
All these buses are avaible from the station '''''Nowy Kleparz''''' which you reach by bus from the center or walking. It is about 2 km north of the old town. If you go there by bus you might get off at a station where only the busses to '''''Opolska estakada''''' stop. The bus terminal where the buses 217,247,277 leave is about 100m further north from the crossroads at ''Plac Nowy Kleparz''.
Watch out because Hitchhike after the bus does not stop at the last stop but drives inner bypass on so ''Opolska'' street - you want to know when to can get off. There is a lot of space on deceleration lane going to the petrol station and cars are going extremely slow because there by buses number 139,132,172,105,102,207 - bus stop name is a traffic light just ahead.'''''Opolska estakada'''''
50.095057,19.961504 - put this to google maps, that's the location of the petrol station.
50.097929Bus stop '''''Belwederczyków''''' buses 257, 277, 280 from '''''Nowy Kleparz''''' and hitch directly from it, it's just outside the city,19.961807 - I believe this there is the bus some place for a car to stop Kuźnicy Kołłątajowskiejand You're visible from far away
You can also go A better option is to take the bus number 217,247,277 until the stop '''''BelwederczykówKuźnicy Kołłątajowskiej''''' (. Here there is a lot of space for cars to pull over and many cars are going even all the way to Warsaw. All these buses 257, 277, 280 are avaible from the station '''''Nowy Kleparz''''') and hitch directly which you reach by bus from it, it's just outside the city, center or walking. It is about 2 km north of the old town. If you go there is some place for by bus you might get off at a car station where only the busses to stop and You're visible from far away, my experience (as of 2017) shows that bypass on ''Opolska'' street or any areas before Opolska estakada'''''Kuźnicy Kołłątajowskiej'stop. The bus terminal where the buses 217,247,277 leave is about 100m further north from the crossroads at ''Plac Nowy Kleparz'' . Watch out because the bus does not stop are just too busy for anyone at the last stop but drives on so you want to know when to notice get off. There is a single hitchhiker in lot of space on deceleration lane going to the constant flow of petrol station and cars, let alone stopping for them (getting a ride are going extremely slow because there is doable, but hardly, i've never ever been successful)GPS 50°06'21.9"N 19°57'53.1"E, use https://krakow.jakdojade.pl/ for getting info on how to get there with public transportationa traffic light just ahead.
=== East towards [[Sandomierz]], [[Rzeszów]], [[Przemyśl]], [[Lviv]] ([[Ukraine|UA]]) {{National Road Number Poland|4}} {{E|40}} ===
Take tram no. 8, 19, 22, 23, 40 (operating only on Sundays and day offs) from the centre to the last stop ''Borek Fałęcki''. There is a small bus station here. You can either walk south for a couple of kilometres until you go under the highway overpass, or take bus 175, 235, 245, 255, 275, 285 and get out at the stop ''Opatkowice'' immediately after the highway overpass. You can hitch from the ''Opatkowice'' bus stop.
Alternatively if you start out early in the morning, you can take the above mentioned bus '''285''' much farther away from the city to a much better spot. Get off at Mogilany Ośrodek Zdrowia. This is a bus stop on the highway, hitch from here. Excellent spot! <br/>(In case nobody speaks English and you don't know where to get off, if you are in the front of the bus near the driver, you will see a red bridge from the distance, this one: [https://www.google.com/maps/@49.939466,19.894601,3a,75y,172.78h,92.74t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sG-2qOxM2yscYZqcBJ-67hg!2e0 Mogilany Wiadukt]As soon as you see the bridge in the distance, get off immediately. In case you miss it, no worries, you can get off after the bridge and walk back maybe one kilometer) <br/>
'''WARNING''': the bus operates very rarely (and '''doesn't''' go on Sundays!), so you should check the timetable here:
[http://rozklady.mpk.krakow.pl/aktualne/0285/0285t001.htm 285 bus timetable]
If you are going towards [[Bielsko-Biała]], tell your driver immediately so that he knows to leave you at the fork in the road a few kilometres south of Krakow.
If your are heading to Slovakia, the road splits towards SK in [[Rabka-Zdrój]]. At the fork in the road itself there is a good spot to hitchhike, though there is mainly local traffic and it may require a couple of lifts to reach the Slovak border. Alternatively, if you don't want to hitchhike in Krakow or save some time, you can take a bus to this spot for 9 PLN, which is not that pricier from what would you pay for public transport in Krakow. Bus stop is called ''Skomielna Biała, skrzyżowanie''. You can use [http://www.busy-krk.pl/en/rabka-zdroj-krakow.php this site] to check timetables. You can also take a similar mini-bus to Jabłonka (which is right at the border) for about 20 PLN.