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== Hitching Out ==
=== North, South, East towards [[Belgrade]] ([[Serbia]]), [[Sofia]] ([[Bulgaria]]) and [[Athens (Greece)]] ===
From the center of '''Skopje''', get bus #2 (or any other bus that heads for ''Avtokomanda'') eastwards all the way to the last stop. This is the the eastern edge of '''Skopje''' city proper, on the main road east before the turn off north towards [[Serbia]].
For hitchhiking to the north you can take a bus from the train station of Skopje to the direction of Kumanovo, and tell the bus driver to drop you at the pay-toll before Kumanovo. The bus is really cheap, and at the pay-toll you have a good chance to find a lift. If the bus driver doesn't understand English you can use the words "autostop" and "patarina", which means pay-toll. When you are at a pay-toll, also the coaches will stop to ask you if you want to go with them, but not for free. But be careful, a bus ticket from Skopje to Belgrade isn't more like 20 euro.
After the Serbian border the motorway from Macedonia turns into a normal road, but as it is the only road from Skopje to Belgrade, you have the same amount of traffic like on the motorway.
The E871 road towards Sofia splits off a few kilometers after Kumanovo. On Sundays, however, there are very few cars at the [[Kriva Palanka-Kyustendil border crossing]], and from Skopje on Sundays it may well be faster to go up to [[Niš]] in [[Serbia]] and then back down into Bulgaria instead of choosing this crossing.
== Sleeping ==
