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,→East towards Sofia (Bulgaria) {{European Route Number|80}}
=== East towards [[Sofia]] ([[Bulgaria]]) {{European Route Number|80}} ===
==== Bus ====
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/4WTEMmG5PphHWGjc8
To get there, take a city '''bus number 4''' from the city center. Ticket costs 60 dinars or 0.5 euros and the ride will take around 15-20 minutes. Follow GPS on your phone and when the bus crosses intersection of Knjazevacka street and Matejevacki put, get 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). Most of the cars go to the villages and some to the highway (same direction). You may get lucky and save your legs of 1 km walking. If not, just 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 highway. Don't make a mistake and go to the right. You will get lost in the highway intersections later and it will be difficult to come back.
You can also take '''bus number 5''' from the city center. Same price for the bus ticket, but it could be slightly faster ride because the route is shorter. Get off at the last stop at Somborska street. Note this: Somborska street has changed name recently, but on Google maps it's still the old name. If the new name ever gets updated on Google maps, don't get confused if you don't find Somborska street but you find "Bulevar svetog Pantelejmona". From the last stop walk 2 km to the hitchhiking spot explained above.
==== Taxi ====Another option is to '''take a taxi'''. Taxi in Niš is really not expensive. According to Google maps it's 5.5 km from the city center to the hitchhiking spot. Start costs 110 dinars and every km is 40 dinars. That's around 330 dinars total which is less than 3 euros. If you take taxi from different location which is closer to the hitchhiking spot it can be even cheaper. You can also take a bus (explained in previous steps) and from there take a taxi to hitchhiking spot. For 2 km it would cost no more than 200 dinars or 1.6 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, but not at the outskirts of the city. Legal taxi in Serbia always have TX as last two letters on car plates. To order a taxi you have to make a call. Waiting time is usually 3-4 minutes. If you don't have local sim card, ask someone to call taxi for you and 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, Cool, Eko, Bros, LiftTDI,...
Option 2 (local road): This option used to be the best one before the highway was completed in 2019. Now mostly local traffic goes there and international traffic uses highway (, trucks especially because they are not allowed to use local road anymore). Personally I wouldn't take this route, but if you are into more picturescue road through Sićevo gorge, you can use this option. Take a city '''bus number 1''' from the central square to Niška Banja. One-way ticket costs 80 RSD, which is about 0.70€. Conductors will charge it once you get on the bus. No need to buy ticket in advance. After about a 15 minutes journey, get off the bus on the second-to-last stop, just before roundabout (before bus crosses over the railroad tracks). There is a roundabout and you can thumb after the roundabout. Here, you may catch some traffic driving out of the city to your direction. After highway was completed, most of the people take highway and this road is mostly used for local traffic nowadays. Still, you can find a ride to Pirot or even the border as the road is free and in good condition, so some people choose this road instead of paying for highway.
=== North towards [[Belgrade]] {{European Route Number|75}} ===
