Hitchhiking from Sofia

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Hitchhiking to Sofia

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Recent reviews mentioning Sofia

42.26418, 24.30872

quite some traffic but somewhat hard to get a lift. still a good option when moving from Sofia to the east.

rating: 3/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 140 km →

Happy, January 2025

42.21284, 22.34643

Found a ride for Sofia. Pretty good!

rating: 5/5, wait: 25 min, ride: 119 km ↗

kyliann, December 2024

41.95935, 22.78633

Gas station staff approached the customers and was very friendly. I stood parallel to the street. Could have even gone to Sofia, but just wanted to go to the other side of the border. Were not many cars but not 5 minutes waited.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 30 km →

Birdy, Mon 11 Nov 2024, 07:40

43.74949, 21.45022

It was really slow on a saturday, but I think I just had bad luck. At first I tried to get to Sofia directly, after an hour I switched to Niš and hitched directly from the sidelane of the highway, which worked fine. There are a lot of trucks and enough cars, so I think in general its a good spot during work days, on the weekend there was mostly local traffic and trucks on a break though. Has a restaurant too.

rating: 4/5, wait: 5 min

―Anonymous, October 2024

46.37216, 19.99735

Gas station with traffic. Mode of it goes to Romania but you have to be lucky and keep asking. I asked to the Serbian border and they ended taking me to Sofia (BG). You won’t have a better spot anyways

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 💬, ride: 608 km ↘

―Anonymous, September 2024

43.34971, 21.85899

Shit for sofia

rating: 1/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 1 km ↓

―Anonymous, August 2024

47.205, 15.31743

Got a lift to Sofia in 1 hour with a Maribor sign. Asking around isn't effective because a lot of driver go to other direction

rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min 🪧

Yolik, August 2024

44.02003, 22.93983

Bad Spot to go to Sofia. Almost No Traffic
Its better to stay at the Border and ask drivers there.
We took the train



rating: 1/5

―Anonymous, March 2024

43.34159, 21.92931

Hitchhiking spot for Sofia, cars going really fast and not so many of them stop on the gas station. I got the ride after 1 hour and 15 min

rating: 4/5, wait: 75 min, ride: 166 km ↘

―Anonymous, February 2024

43.42489, 24.49874

Good spot on the way to Sofia

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 156 km ↙

―Anonymous, January 2024

42.01792, 23.0714

Amazing spot for HH towards Sofia, done it three times and people always stop.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 93 km ↑

KIRO, January 2024

41.84385, 23.48612

Just before the petrol station. It's a good spot to get a ride to the main road west of Bansko, and also to Sofia(I got it in 10 minutes).

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 118 km ↑

Doda, June 2023

42.10729, 21.6985

The best place for going to Bulgaria along a route which is not too frequented. I stayed at the barrier and simply asked drivers with Bulgarian numbers (not big letters BG, which is Belgrade) while they were paying their tickets. Toll workers don't pay attention, but be respectful of course. This way got direct drives to Sofia even in the evening!

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min

kadaifbalkan, June 2023

41.38142, 23.36274

The border is a great place to get a ride into Bulgaria! Many trucks, easy to go to Sofia. I didn't even need to ask, just started talking with the truck drivers, and one offered me a ride!

rating: 5/5, wait: 0 min, ride: 74 km ↑

Doda, June 2023

41.77643, 26.15908

Not a huge traffic (Sunday morning) but the road leave Svilengrad toward Sofia.

rating: 5/5, wait: 25 min, ride: 152 km ↖

iLoveBozec, June 2023

43.3806, 21.80984

Very hard to get a lift to Sofia (2 men )


rating: 2/5

―Anonymous, August 2022

42.28431, 22.70183

At the gas station. Found a lift to Sofia even at night.

―Anonymous, September 2016

43.41616, 25.15154

Get a lift to sofia in 10 minutes

―Anonymous, June 2016

43.4477, 25.65673

Good cross to catch a car to sofia direction

Az-alcmar, June 2016

42.16167, 24.72973

The best place in our opinion! Were hitchhiking in a couple (a guy and a girl), with a sign written in Bulgarian [София моля те :) - Sofia, please :) ] and literally stopped a car in 1 minute. Stand on the little corner after the semaphore so that not only cars that go straight to highway could see you, but also the ones turning to the left.

Martinio, June 2016

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