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*==== Kosovo ====If you are headed towards going to '''Kosovo''' get off at the last bus stop (same bus number 10 as described above) and then hitch/walk about 6 kilometers further as this road merges with the actual road leading to Kosovo and you can get more traffic coming from the highway. Road to Kosovo is fairly easy to hitch on because it isn't officially a motorway. You can use sign [[Prokuplje]] as it's the first city on your way or [[Kuršumlija]] which is the last town before border with Kosovo. Don't go to Kuršumlija center. Get off the vehicle before the road goes towards the city. You will see it on GPS.
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,→South/Southwest towards Prishtina (Kosovo), Skopje (North Macedonia) {{E|75}} {{E|80}}
* Don't ever accept a ride to Smederevo because it's a dead end since most drivers will use the south toll gate "Kolari" to enter the city, but people going to Belgrade will never use it because they use southwest toll gate called "Vodanj". I stuck in Kolari once and had to hitchhike back to "Požarevac toll gate" to get a ride to Belgrade form there. If your driver is going to Smederevo, you can kindly ask him if he is willing to take you to "Vodanj" toll gate. It will be 7 km more for him, but will save you from being stuck in a wrong toll gate.
=== South/Southwest towards [[PrishtinaSkopje]] ([[KosovoNorth Macedonia]]), [[SkopjePrishtina]] ([[North MacedoniaKosovo]]) {{E|75}} {{E|80}} ===
==== Macedonia ====
You need to get to the South toll gate called "Niš jug" which is located here https://goo.gl/maps/KEQJefmYByfgjnZC9
Walk back 10 meters. Motorway going South will take you to [[Leskovac]]. If you want to go further, better take the highway. Walk direction North for another 1.5 km (or you can try to hitchhike even there instead of walking). There will be another roundabout on your way. Go left there and you will see the toll gate. Note that you motorway will probably not take you far, but highway could take you even to the border with Macedonia.
After passing town of Prokuplje, number of vehicles is getting somewhat lower. You better get a lift from vehicles registered to a foreign plates, as not many Serbian registered vehicles cross into Kosovo at all. A considerable number of trucks going into Kosovo also pass here. If you use signs for hitchhiking, after Kuršumlija write Merdare. that's the name of the border crossing with Kosovo.
What is important to notice here is the traffic structure on this particular road. Serbian vehicles are in most cases heading not further than town of Kuršumlija and nearby villages. Those that pass Kuršumlija in most cases head to Prolom Banja (mineral springs health resort site) or Đavolja Varoš/Devil's Town, natural rock formations site that is a tourist hot-spot nowadays. Both of these are pretty much off the main road. These vehicles going to the border with Kosovo (Merdare village) and further, are very low in numbers.
Therefore, have in mind that if you catch a ride that heads to some of these previously mentioned sites, you may easily get stuck on the road at these for those last 10 or 15 kilometers before Merdare/Kosovo checkpoint, without much traffic at all.
=== Northeast towards Zajechar, [[Vidin]], [[Romania]] ===
