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Hitching from Reykjavik to Egilsstaðir, some 700 kilometers, is doable in a week or even less (down to two days) if you're in a hurry. Like anywhere, getting out of a major city ([[Reykjavík]]) is difficult (read up on the good spots in the [[Reykjavik]] article), but many people on Icelandic roads do drive long distances. People are nice, and Iceland is ridiculously safe, with the exception of some dogs and cows that like to chase hitchers. Getting to [[Hella]] is easy and can be done in less than a day, within a couple hours, but the next leg/road from Hella to [[Höfn]] is more difficult to hitch, although with some patience you will get your ride, too. You can ask for lifts from Hella to Vík, then to Kirkjubæjarklaustur, Skaftafel, and then to Höfn. The last leg, from Hofn to Egilsstadir, is the hardest route to hitch on motorway One (the motorway that goes all around the Icelandic coast). For the rest of the route, there are generally five cars, or less, per hour. That does not mean it is hopeless to hitchhike on such roads: on the contrary, it is very often the fewer cars there are, more likely the drivers will not ignore a lone hitcher in the middle of nowhere. After Höfn, there are two ways to get to Egilsstaðir: you can hitch from Höfn until you get to the juncture between motorway 1 and a mountain route - this may be faster, but '''only doable with a 4x4''', and there is no way it is anywhere near as scenic as to continue along motorway 1 - the untouched nature between Höfn and Breiddalsvík is magnificent. From Breiddalsvík you take the road that goes through Breiddalur (a wide valley) and eventually gets you to Egilsstaðir. Hitchhiking is also easy on the road between Selfoss and Gulfoss, it is a popular road in summer, although with less traffic than road N1. You can stop at Geysir and Gullfoss waterfall. From Gulfoss onwards, lies the Kjölur road (F35), hitching here is much harder because only 4W vehicles transit there, and only a few per day. Even in summer weather can be cold at this place.