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{{Infobox Location|country = Hungary|map = <map lat='47.506534' lng='19.125824' zoom='10' view='0' float='right' height='270' width='350' />|pop = 1,744,665|motorways = {{E|60}}, {{E|71}},{{E|75}},{{E|77}}}} '''Budapest''' is the capital of [[Hungary]].__NOTOC__ == Hitching in == If your driver is only going around Budapest on the ring road, and not entering the city, the best exit points are Dabas-Soroksár (close to M5, south-east) from which you can take a bus to Népliget, and Dunakeszi-Újpest (close to M2, north) from which you can take bus 104. Dabas-Soroksár is the exit from the M5 to the local road number 5. If you get from the highway onto the 5, walk or ask the driver to bring you 2km in direction of the city center (towards the M51). After you pass the M51 there will be a MOL petrol station. Behind the petrol station is the bus number 66. This one will go inside the city and will bring you to the next metro station, too.
== Hitching out ==
=== E60 East towards [[Oradea]], [[Cluj-Napoca]] = Option 5: Various spots near the city centre ====
=== M2 North South towards [[KrakówSzeged]], [[WarsawSerbia]], [[PolandArad]] ([[Romania]] ) (M5) {{E|75}} === ==== Option 1: Gyáli út ==== Take tram 4 or 6 to ''Boráros tér'', then take bus number 54 or 55 to the stop ''Gyáli út''. Walk straight for 75 m and then turn left on the street ''Gyáli út''. After about 150 m there is a curve in the road, turn right there and walk to the motorway (it's not yet a motorway officially, so you can hitchhike there). There is one straight no road or pavement leading there, but it's easy to cross. You will see a half complete ramp on your right going on the motorway. It's basicaly a 100 meters long lane with no traffic on it, it's ideal for cars to stop, and you are also visible from a long distance. As of January 2017, there is some construction which leaves no space for stopping except on the exit lane of the petrol station nearby. The spot still worked quite well ==== Option 2: Petrol Station OMV on Nagykőrösi út ==== Take tram 4 or 6 to ''Boráros tér'', then take bus 54 or 55 to the stop ''Radnó utca''. There is a petrol station on the other side of the noise barrier wall. You could also thumb at the bus stop on the bus-only lane. If you want to go any further, option 3 is about 800 meters down the road . ''I got a ride to a rest station near Kecskemét within 30 minutes. My driver told me that thumbing at the bus station would've been a better idea. Kecskemét was good to hitchhike, but the tourists are annoying. This is also a perfect route to go to Kosovo, as 90% of drivers will be going there. - Rebew (no E77 30/07/ M22021) from Budapest '' ==== Option 3: Start of M5 motorway ==== Take the metro to ''Határ út''. Then take bus [http://www.bkv.hu/busz/84e.html #84E], [http://www.bkv.hu/busz/89e.html #89E] or [http://www.bkv.hu/busz/294e.html #294E] to Warsawthe stop ''Naszód utca (Használtcikk piac)''. In Budapest Here you can start to hitch (you should see a Citroen car lot on the other side of the road. A sign "Szeged" is useful. If you take bus 84E, you can continue straight onto the motorway to a OMV petrol station that you can hitch from. (This information is unconfirmed; maybe this is the OMV in option 2.) ==== Option 4: Motorway service station M5 Inárcs ==== Take the metro 3 to ''Népliget''. Take bus [http://www.volanbusz.hu/en/timetable/lines/line/?menetrend=2204 Volánbusz 608] to ''Inárcsi elág (blue lineM5-ös út) ''. After approximately 30km, it will leave the motorway and go to Inárcs. Remember the way and get out on second last off the bus at the first stop (in north part of cityshortly past where the town starts)and walk back to the OMV petrol station where the bus left the motorway. Take care, because there is no sidewalk and cars/trucks can be quite fast. It is called Ujpest-Varoskaputhe first big petrol station on M5 after Budapest [http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/47.2750/19. There is a river 3289] and there will be cars and road next trucks to itall the southerly destinations - just ask around. You can hitchhike there look for foreign plates if you want to leave the country. === South towards [[Érd]], [[Pécs]] (there many 6, M6) {{European Route Number|73}} === Take tram 61 from near train station ''Déli Pályaudvar'', or tram 6 from ''Blaha Lujza tér.'', or bus 7 from ''Ferenciek tere'', to ''Móricz Zsigmond körtér''. From here, cross the street and walk on for about 20m. Take bus stops 33 or 33A and few petrol stationsget off at ''Budatétényi Sorompó'' (the stop after the big shopping mall Campona on your left) . From the bus stop, turn back and walk in the direction the bus just came from. Cross the street at the first crossing to Sahy your right (Növény ut.). That street has a railway overpass that crosses over it. Walk under the overpass and in a couple of minutes you'll arrive at a busy road. This is road #6 that goes south to Pécs. Turn left on that road and start hitching before the traffic light near the bus stop. There is enough room for cars to pull over there. If you take bus 33, you can go until the last stop (''Nagytétény, Chinoin''). Walk forward (east) for 200 m and then turn left to the ramp which leads you to a roundabout. There is an entry to the M6 here where you can thumb. For food, bathroom, and buses, get dropped of at the Tesco in Pécs. There's Hungarian-a bus station there where cars can stop. === East towards [[Miskolc]], [[Košice]] ([[Slovakia]]n border), [[Ukraine]] (M3) {{European Route Number|71}} === ==== Option 1: Junction & Petrol station on M3 bevezető ==== Take trolleybus [http://www. bkk.hu/en/timetables/#74 74] from ''Károly körút (Astoria M)'' near Astoria metro station. Get off at ''Sárrét park''. Turn back in the direction from where the trolleybus came from and walk ≈50m along Ungvár ut. Turn right and walk 200m along Rákosszeg park to the end. Turn right on Kacsóh Pongrác út. and walk 100m to the entrance slip road, or turn left on Kacsóh Pongrác út. and walk 50m to the OMV petrol station. ==== Option 2: M3 Junction ==== Or Take bus 7, 7E, 8E, 108E, or 133E from ''Blaha Lujza tér'' and get off at the last stop ''Újpalota, Nyírpalota út''. Walk northwest 1km along Szentmihályi út. to the sliproad at the beginning of the M3 proper. It's not the best hitchhiking spot, but it works after a while. If you can then get stuck here, walk 2km along the motorway to the service station. ==== Option 3: M3 Junction Mogyoród ==== Take metro 2 to the last stop ''Örs Vezér tér''. From the HÉV (regional train station), take train 8 in the direction 'Gödöllő' and get off at ''Mogyoród''. From the station, walk left 20m on Vasút ut. Turn right and walk ≈400m along Gödöllői ut. Then turn right and walk ≈500m along Szadai út. until you reach the entrance sliproad to the M3 motorway on the right. Alternatively, two kilometres further on, there is also a petrol station on the motorway. ==== Option 4: Motorway service station M3 ====Take bus (96 or 104)5 from ''Blaha Lujza tér'' in the direction of Rákospalota, go down Kossuth utca and get off at Foti ut ''Juhos utca''. Walk ≈450m northeast along Régi Fóti út. You will see a Lidl supermarket on the right. Turn right on the small road and walk southeast for 1km crossing over the motorway bridge. (one stop before You can see the service station on the left from the last one I thinkbridge). Here Take the first road left after the bridge and walk ≈700m until you see the big Praktiker store. Turn left and walk through the car park to the end and jump over the small-ish fence and once past the road, you'll will be on the intersection of Vaci ut petrol station. There is a McDonalds and KFC here too. ''''''Option 5:'''''' Kacsóh Pongrác út bus station'''''' Take M1 to Mexikói út metro station and Foti ut, cross the railways in the underpass to the Róbert Károly körút where you have will find Kacsóh Pongrác út bus station. It's a very safe place to stop and it is directly before the entrance to the M3 highway. (Waiting time as a woman 10-15 min, hichhiked many times here) === East towards [[Szolnok]], [[Debrecen]], [[Oradea]] ([[Romania]]) {{European Route Number|60}}, (4) === ==== Option 1: Agip petrol station on national road 4 ==== Take metro 3 to the end of the line at ''Kőbánya-Kispest''. Walk to the bus station on the other side of the #4 road. Take the airport bus 200E and get off at the second to last stop before the airport: ''Vecsés-nyugat''. Walk back along the road ≈600m and then behind that you have an old abandoned bus stop with will reach the Agip petrol station & McDonalds.<br/ > ==== Option 2: Üllő roundabout & MOL petrol station ==== Take a huge regional train from train station ''Nyugati Pályaudvar'' to ''Üllő'' (550 HUF and 30 min ride). Walk ≈700m southwest on Deák Ferenc ut. till you reach the main road through the town Pesti út. Turn left (southeast) here and walk 2km along Pesti út to the large roundabout and MOL petrol station at the end of town. You can also hitch 100m past the roundabout on national road 4; although there's no shoulder, there is some space for anything cars to pull over and stop. That20/09/17 Tried option 1 for 3 hours and then went to option 2, waited maybe 30min. === Option 3: M3 Highway for Debrecen === Take a subway till station Mexicói út after walk 4 km ( it's pretty far and I saw a bus 25, but didn't check from where is it going ) till you hitch cross Ozman utca( or around it) it will be a gas station OMV, the road is going among M3 highway, and here some cars are going to a gas station from Highway to this road and back to the highway, and also there is a bus stop after a gas station, where is very convenient to stop the car. === North towards [[Slovakia]], [[Kraków]] ([[Poland]]) M2 {{European Route Number|77}} === [[File:vacifoti.jpg|thumb|right|220 px| The bus stop at the Váci-Fóti intersection]] ==== Option 1: Motorway Junction Sződliget ==== Take a train from ''Nyugati Pályaudvar'' in the direction of Vac and and get off at ''Sződliget'' (HUF 550/EUR 2 and 30 min ride). Walk south along the platform to the road (Dunai fasor). Turn left (east) and usually wait just walk ≈400m to the entrance sliiproad over the motorway bridge. Stand on the motorway hitchhiking instead of the sliproad as there's a couple lot of space to pull over and people don't really drive too fast at that stretch of the road. ==== Option 2: Motorway service station (Shell) ==== Take a train from ''Nyugati Pályaudvar'' to "Dunakeszi Gyártelep" (HUF 150/300) and walk 3.5 km to the petrol station on the E77 (Hungarians call it Road Number Two). The walk is 40+ minutesbut its pretty straightforward - check this [http://goo.gl/maps/bCKPV map]. From Pipa st. you can see the sign of the petrol station in the distance, and it will help you to navigate. The motorway only has two lanes and cars are going pretty slow, so it's not a problem to cross it. Once you get there its great spot to catch a long drive! You can be picky, so best wait for someone going straight to Poland because once you get to the Slovak border, the road is getting bad and this is your best shot. If you're heading to [[Poland]], you'd most likely be better off finding a direct lift to Poland from the Hungarian- Slovak border rather than getting short lifts through Slovakia. Trucks go until the Chyzne border crossing between Slovakia and Poland, where it's easy to get a lift to Krakow or further to Warsaw.
== Public Transport ==
On buses the green line there are security guards stationed on the platforms, but don't worry, they won't check your tickets. They're just a security precaution. The same thing applies on tram 4 or 6 at night (they run 24 hours). They will stand at some entrances to the tram and check peoples' tickets as they enter the tram (They'll be wearing either a yellow vest or a green armband.) Choose a different entrance and trams you have 'll be fine, because the controllers stand at one door and don't move through the tram. For finding connections between two points in the following options if you get caughtcity, there's a very good route planner available also in English: [http://www.bkk.hu/en/timetables/ http://www.bkk.hu/en ] There is a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373981/ very good Hungarian movie] about the controllers on Budapest's public transportation. Finding English subtitles is easy, too.Refuse == Sleeping == If you want to pay saying sleep outside in summer, you have no money can do so anywhere in Buda hills. These places are abandoned after dark, far from people, and sometimes used by homeless people. In case the weather outside is not very warm nor welcoming, the mall Duna Plaza, in the northern part of the city XIII district, metro stop Gyongyosi utza offer great opportunities to find a shelter and not being discovered by security guards. In a cold night of november I found a perfect spot to lay down on you his mat and refuse sleep, behind the high bar of a closed (but open..) pub on the 2nd floor, next to give them any ID/passport - they have no legal right to demand it or arrest you or anythingthe restaurants, emergency exit stairs on the back, only at the policehighest floors are also a good option. Sometimes they try Toilets are closed at night and security go around to threaten you saying check when theyclose the building around 02:00. Another safe option for the winter time would be the 'll call ''airport''' - unfortunately you can’t blackride the bus that goes there since the police driver checks everyone, but that has never happened yetthe combined ticket for the Metro and the bus is 530 HUF (~1,15€). If you buy the ticket from the driver instad of the vending machine, it’s 600 HUF. The staff doesn’t care about the people sleeping there and no one checks if you have a flight ticket. Might also be a good option if you’re planning on hitchhiking from there in the morning. == Food == At Allee shopping centre (metro stop Újbuda Központ, green line. Tram 4 and 6 too) on the police will not bother top floor there is a large food court where it's possible to turn up every time someone tries to jump table dive. Also at Kőbánya Kispest (last stop on the M3 blue line) there is a large shopping centre beside the tramtrain station. If they donThere't have your ID they s a large food court on the top floor also where you cantable dive. Also in the Corvin Plaza there't sue s a food court on the top floor to table dive. Try the market at Újbuda Központ (Vásárlócsarnok) and youcan maybe get some free vegetables from the sellers there. At Örs vezér tere, so there's an IKEA with a great food court. Just take a left after you come up the following options are up stairs to avoid all the showrooms unless youenjoy playing there to raise your appetite :-) On the top floor of the central market at Fovam ter, there are many food stalls, popular among tourists, most of whom are ignorant fuckers who order what they want but not what they need, i.e. A LOT of leftovers on the table. There are public tables where these fuckers eat and they are not frequently cleaned by workers, thus easy opportunity for table diving. Please do this, even just once or twice. I have seen big sandwiches and baked potatoes and such being left after a single bite. We should make wasting food a crime. == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki == {{nomadwiki}}
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