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You can find a lot of [http://stopar.sk/ offers for hitchhikers] at [http://www.stopar.sk/index.php?newlang=english stopar.sk] (available in English). However, most drivers expect you to pay something for the ride (less then 1 EUR for km)
[[File:DSCN0478.JPG|thumb|250px|left|[[User:Titush|Titush]] hitchhiking towards Slovakia]]
== West-East travelling ==
Slovakia is a small country. Because the country has many hills the aren't many routes to go nor are they good/many highways. So the main traffic stream is West-East and reverse. Therefore most of the people use the D1 highway what is called the north way.
But as the new motorway R1 was finished the streams seperated. Sometimes they are called the north way and the shouth. They split near [[Trnava]] and join in [[Ruzomberok]]. Going both ways there is always a part where there is no highway/motorway but just a national road. For the north one it is the road 18, for the south it is the road 59. Still the north route is the more used becouse it's a habit. But in the summer it is close to be equal.
During the winter the north route becomes more used by people going at least to [[Ruzomberok]], becouse on the south route there are a lot of skiing centres so most of the cars going there are full and there is allways a trafiic jam.
The parts with no highway make the traveling slower but can be an advantage for you. On many parts there are traffic jams and the roads go through many cities so you can hitchhike on bus stops and traffic lights and you can catch a pretty long ride.
Another small group of cars that go from west to the farest east ([[Kosice]] and more east) go by the so called big south route. It's a route that start in [[Bratislava]], goes by the D1 highway, continues by the R1 motorway and the gets off the motorway either in [[Nitra]] or in [[Zvolen]] and continues by the national roads and then the big northern way and the big southern way meet in [[Kosice]]. But this is the least used route. The meaning of mentioning this option is just to be said that some people go that way and it is still possible to hitch there.
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