Yeah, I know expressway rest areas being good places to hitch, but one has to get on the expressway first! And for that, their entrances are the logical places, at least in big cities.
At the rest areas, I only got desperate enough to "coerce" drivers into giving a ride by directly asking once. It was at a very small rest area in Sikoku where hardly any cars stopped as it only had a toilet. Big ones with restaurants, shopping areas etc attract more traffic.
On my whole trip, I never saw another hitchhiker on the roads in Japan, foreigner or local.
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Laszlo
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paulina_travel
blog
Hola! This is my first submission. :)
Title: FAQ Boat HitchHiking - Frequently Asked Questions About Boat HitchHiking
Destinations covered: Tenerife, Cape Verde, Barbado
Theme: Boat HitchHiking across the Atlantic
Style: FAQ - Travel advice
Synopsis: After coming home from our Boat HitchHiking adventure across the Atlantic ocean, we got bombed with questions. How did we do this? How much did it cost? Did it take very long to find a boat? That's why I decided to create a FAQ section which should also help potential boat hitchhikers to get started with their adventure.
URL: https://www.paulinaontheroad.com/boat-hitchhiking/faq-boat-hitchhiking/
Paulina on the road.
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onyx007
You might still be the first to walk the whole lenght, because I read the first review and it looks like, that at some points that couple used buses, ferries and did even hitchhike, so they didn't walked the whole time, but as already mentioned if pilgrims Need 5 week for 800 km. you might Need a whole year for the danube...
smartlat_mx
Hi everyone,
I'm super excited to visit NZ in NYE. So far I have planned as follows:
Dec 21 - Queenstown
Dec 22 - QT- Te Anau
Dec 33 - Te Anau - Milford Track
Dec 24 - MT
Dec 25 - MT
Dec 26 - MT - Te Anau
Dec 27 - Te Anau
Dec 28 - Te Anau - Routeburn track
Dec 29 - RT
Dec 30 - RT - Te Anau
Dec 31 - Te Anau - Kepler Track
Jan 1 - KT
Jan 2 - KT
Jan 3 - KT - Te Anau
Jan 4 - Te Anau - Wanaka
Jan 5 - Wanaka
Jan 6 - Wanaka -?
Jan 7 - ?
Jan 8 - ?
Jan 9 - Nelson
Jan 10 - Nelson - Wellington
Jan 11 - Wellington - Auckland
Jan 12 - Auckland
Questions:
- Is doing the 3 tracks in such short amount of time too much?
- What would you recommend instead of doing the Kepler Track? It's impossible to spend NYE somewhere during those days as all places ask for at least 3 nights. I'm thinking about going to Te Anau to Wanaka and do Couchsurfing. From there hitchhike to Nelson or stop in any towns and from Nelson/Wellington fly to Auckland to fly back to Vancouver.
Thank you in advance for your input!
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peter826
blog
The beaches up around La Paz (like Balandra) would be really nice, I'd think, for baby friendly. Very shallow water, warm, but watch out for stingrays! Too far as a daytrip. You'd have to go up there and spend a night or two. Last time I was there there was a guy selling food, etc, at the beach.
Todos Santos was pleasant but lots of daytrippers from Cabo the time I was there. I had some issue with the bus and ended up hitchhiking back to La Paz from there.
Cabo is too touristy for me.
Karl_dw
Hi!
My girlfriend and i will hike thy lycian way next October!
We'll arrive in Antalya 30/09 and we'll fly back from Antalya on 18/10;
As we will include some 'rest days', i think we will be hiking for about 10 to 12 days (6 to max 8 hours a day). We want to do the whole trail, however we realize its not possible to hike every single section in only 10 or 12 days. So...i have got some questions for you guys.
First of all: is it possible to hike some sections, take some public transport (or hitchhike) and then continue to walk some other sections? Or do you think that will be to much of a hassle ?
If possible: can you recommend which sections we really have to do and which sections we should rather skip?
Last but not least: there are lots of guesthouses along the way. Is it worth it to take our camping stuff ? Do you think it is an added value? If you guys can recommend villages to stay or even guesthouses ... please do!
Oh maybe one more: should we start from antalya or is it more interesting the other way around ? (or does it doesnt matter at all) ?
Thankkss!
janbaier2000244405
Searching for travelbuddies
Hola!
I‘m planing on doing the Carretera Austral starting in January, Puerto Montt down until reaching Punta Arenas and then going back up through Argentina to travel the rest of South America until August.
This is going to be a budget trip, so quite some camping and trekking.
Searching for some fellow travelers with similar plans to share this adventure with, because traveling together is always more fun!
Age, gender and all that other stuff doesn’t matter, only requirement is a passion for traveling ;)
I’m open to all forms of transportation (hitchhiking, buses or car) and don’t have any fixed plans, so any recommendations will be well appreciated.
If you consider sharing some part of this trip, just hit me up!
Cheers
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Giora
I've only once seen a hitchhiker at an expressway entrance: he was a Western backpacker standing in the rain, holding a sign indicating that he wanted to go to Okayama. Had I been heading to Okayama, I would have stopped for him, but the expressway entrance is a little bit of an awkward place to stop, and I could have easily sped past before realizing what he was doing.
Japanese hitchhikers on expressways seem to go to the rest areas, where they have a captive audience of cars that are stopped, and can pick up hitchhikers without any hassle or danger. They hang around the main rest areas holding signs and trying to chat to people. But I haven't seen many of them either.
This seems to be typical of Africa: certain countries are considered shining examples of an African miracle of democracy, stability and all, only for them to suddenly descend into the typical African chaos at one point.
It certainly is. They never really have democracy, or properly stable governments set up for transitions of power. The man at the top dies (or has a stroke and disappears into a hospital in Singapore), and everything goes bananas. Or some group in the hinterland that no-one had ever heard of before suddenly gains enough guns to send everything downhill. Very few places in Africa have genuine, long-term stability.
Even the Congo was once a popular destination for African overlanders.
The onward ticket game is indeed a senseless one....
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mvbergen
The trip to the Afghan side of the Wakhan will be very expensive.
It will be more cheaper and much more easy to travel on the Tajik side.
Accommodations nearly everywhere and transports nottoo difficult to find even if it can be hitchhiking.
Follow the advices above and don't cross the border.
Michelk