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If you look like a western tourist everybody want to work as a private taxi for you (which can be expensive). Therefore, before you enter a car, either agree on a price with the driver or tell him that you cannot pay. Your chances of getting a free ride are low especially if don't speak good Spanish. In fact, there is not much traffic in Cuba and there are also a lot of other hitchers on the road, which can make waiting times long. Furthermore hitchers will often be picked up on the back of trucks (together with many other people). The trucks go slow and the roads are sometimes in a bad state.
In Cuba people with a private car , theoretically, cars are required to pick up hitchhikers. This sounds good but actually less then 40% of In reality, most cars will not stop (even for Cubans) unless you demonstrate your willingness to pay for the cars passing ride by waiving some bills - about 20 pesos (~1 dollar) for every 100km, so you will see many people standing at the highways waiving money. The best locations to be picked up are private cars and traffic in total is pretty low already. There the "puntos amarillos", which are well-established hitch-hiking spots outside the cities named after yellow police officers ("amarillos") who stop cars and oblige the driver to give a lift to the people waiting on the street. There is a small cost involved - about 20 pesos from one city to Do not rely on the next. As the amarillos collect the money during the daytimeofficers, as they often are not present, or, the government gets the moneyif they are physically present, hence it can be easier to hitchhike are not helpful at night when the driver gets the moneyall. Nevertheless you always find many Cubans at the punto amarillos who are supposed can help you. The easiest way to stop find the car and punto amarillo is to ask Cubans, even in big cities everyone should know where the driver where he/she is puntos are. In La Habana, you can take the P7 going complain that less from Parque central and less cars actually stopafter about 30-40 mins you will be close to the punto amarillo on the carretera nacional heading east.
[[File:Amarillo.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[User:fabzgy|Fabzgy]] took this pictures while hitchhiking in [[Cuba]], the two guys dressed in yellow pants and shirts are the "amarillos"]]
