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Take Option 1 (highway): You need to get to the toll gate called "Naplatna stanica - Niš istok" and it's located here https://goo.gl/maps/4WTEMmG5PphHWGjc8To get there, take a city '''bus number 4''' from the central square to Niška Banja (a onecity center. Ticket costs 60 dinars or 0.5 euros and the ride will take around 15-way ticket should cost around 50 RSD, which is about 020 minutes.50€Follow GPS on your phone and when the bus crosses intersection of Knjazevacka street and Matejevacki put, conductors will charge it once you get on off the bus. Keep walking in the same direction for 1.5 km. If you feel like not walking so much, you can try to hitchhike after you cross intersection of Matejevacki put and Somborska street (when 6 lanes boulevard becomes 2 lane street). Get off Most of the bus on cars go to the second-villages and some to-last stopthe highway (same direction). You may get lucky and save your legs of 1 km walking. If not, just before roundabout (before bus crosses keep walking to the toll gate. Make sure with the driver that he goes to the direction of Bulgaria or Pirot at least. Car should go over the railroad tracks), after about a 15 minutes journeyhighway. There is Don't make a roundabout mistake and you can thumb after go to the roundaboutright. Here, you may catch 70% of all locals driving out of You will get lost in the city highway intersections later and it will be difficult to your directioncome back.

However, You can also take '''bus number 5''' from this point you can walk 3the city center.5 km further to reach an ideal hitchhiking position in Same price for the village of Prosek (Просек)bus ticket, where this road joins but it could be slightly faster ride because the highway and all route is shorter. Get off at the other traffic going towards Bulgarialast stop at Somborska street. After 3 km down the roadNote this: Somborska street has changed name recently, you will notice a small junction where roads merge, and after some 400-500 m more, you will be standing in but on Google maps it's still the right spot with a couple of well-frequented Turkish restaurants around and some roadside parking area for long-distance trucks (most of them again being Turkish)old name. Although it is possible to get a ride at If the previous spotnew name ever gets updated on Google maps, this one in Prosek (Просек) should be your goal for international rides, as don't get confused if you don't find Somborska street but you have excellent chances to find a straight ride to [[Bulgaria]] or even further towards [[Turkey]]"Bulevar svetog Pantelejmona". * [[User:Antonopa|Antonopa]] (May 2016) This option works well, From the last stop walk 2 km to Prosek is far, possibly better to take the bus directly there. Once you are in Prosek it is not hard to find a lift to Bulgaria. I waited approximately 45 mins for a ride direct to Sofiahitchhiking spot explained above.

Alternative and possibly easier way Another option is to '''take a taxi'''. Taxi in Niš is really not expensive. According to get Google maps it's 5.5 km from the city center to Prosek the hitchhiking point spot. Start costs 110 dinars and every km is to get one of those suburban buses that go 40 dinars. That's around local villages330 dinars total which is less than 3 euros. Get If you take taxi from different location which is closer to the main hitchhiking spot it can be even cheaper. You can also take a bus station just around the fortress, don't enter main terminals but find a smaller one with only one ticket selling booth (looks like a bus stop with buses constantly flowing through, just by the street, and not by fortress wallsexplained in previous steps), and get on from there take a bus taxi to village of Prosek (Просек)hitchhiking spot. Ticket should not be For 2 km it would cost no more than 200 dinars or 1.25€6 euros. We don't really have those taxis that rip of tourists (sadly because we don't have many tourists so they are not used to it. There are few scammers around main bus station, and these buses depart but not at every 60 minutes or sothe outskirts of the city. Ask driver to let To order a taxi you know where have to get off as this is still make a local suburban bus line and stops aren't well markedcall. Anyway, bus stop where If youdon're getting off has a restaurant meters away with big neon STOP signt have local sim card, so ask someone to call taxi for you can't miss it. Once you get off, walk some 100 meters backwards and there to explain where taxi should pick you up from. Some of them are possible to call via viber. Most popular taxi companies are: Prvi, City, right at the position described aboveCool, Eko, Bros, Lift,...

Another Option 2 (local road): This option towards Bugaria is to go used to be the best one before the Nais toll gatehighway was completed in 2019. * ''[[User:TurtleGrass|TurtleGrass]] (August 2015) Worked out excellently, Now mostly local traffic goes there are cars and international traffic uses highway (trucks stopping all especially because they are not allowed to use local road anymore). Take a city '''bus number 1''' from the timecentral square to Niška Banja. One-way ticket costs 80 RSD, although I was quite unlucky and got which is about 0.70€. Conductors will charge it once you get on the bus. No need to buy ticket in one that had just advance. After about a dribble of petrol! Anyway15 minutes journey, plenty of traffic get off the bus on the second-to Sofia-last stop, definitely recommend it! * NicaNor10 just before roundabout (January 2020before bus crosses over the railroad tracks) I used . There is a roundabout and you can thumb after the roundabout. Here, you may catch some traffic driving out of the Prosek's spot few days ago and unfortunatelycity to your direction. After highway was completed, they closed most of the motorway junction three months agopeople take highway and this road is mostly used for local traffic nowadays. Don't go there fellow hitchhikers if Still, you wanna get can find a ride to SofiaPirot or even the border as the road is free and in good condition, so some people choose this road instead of paying for highway.