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=== Lighted spot ===
In any case, try to stand in a well-lit place, but handy remembering that for some people, the image of a persons (especially a stranger's) head lit from directly above or below can cast an evil looking shadow around the eyes. Traffic lights could also be OK. If you are two hitchhikers and one person can use a lamp to light up the other hitchhiker. If you're alone you have to improvise a little, but it usually works much better with light. [[File:Guaka-hitching-west-bank-2008.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[User:Guaka|guaka]] hitching to [[Jerusalem]] at night in the [[West Bank]] next to the border with [[Jordan]], together with a German guy, who used Guaka's torch to light up the situation. They found a ride in half an hour!]]
When hitching in a lighted spot such as a major junction or the edge of the city, unless you are exactly sure where the driver offering a ride is heading, '''never ever''' accept rides to "a junction some kilometres down the road". However tempting it may be to get in a vehicle which will make you closer to your destination, you may very well end up in some fairly dark small junction where a narrow village road branches off the motorway and where you will likely spend hours until someone even dares to stop (or realise that there is a desperate hitchhiker waiting before it's too late to stop). Be patient, don't leave your well-lit major junction, and accept rides only to other well-lit major junctions or towns and cities.
