We started walking slowly towards the bigger road, but hitched a ride despite not much traffic straight to the place were we left our bikes near Tartu.

Asked around in the line of cars waiting for the ferry. Most of them were driving towards Tallinn/Harjumaa, but then found a car driving to Tartu through Pärnu.

Last Sunday I waited in the dark for 30minutes, this time 15min and both times I luckily got a ride straight to Tartu.

Not much traffic, but still got picked up very quickly and straight to Tartu.

Towards Rõngu/Tartu, in theory a very good spot, good enough visiblity, cars coming from Võru road have nice ramp for them, bus stop with roof etc etc, however this part of the road is pretty desolated with very little traffic, furthermore, noone uses this turn to go towards Rõngu, as the traffic from sideroads literally always goes from Tõrva road to Võru road, speeds are high on the main road and wait times of 100+ minutes to be expected, i ended up walking towards Puka on the highway and about a kilometer in managed to stop a car on the highway, so might be worth a shot, good luck

Not much space to stop, but cars go slow and will pick you up anyway towards Tartu

Got dropped off here, good to continue further on towards Tartu

I think there is not need to walk further to leave Tartu It's a bus stop

bus stop direction Tartu. found a direct ride there.

direction Tallinn and Tartu. If the driver is going in a different direction than you, ask to be dropped of in Johvi, cause thats where the two main roads collide. Not a lot of space to stop but a lot of traffic.

Not much traffic, but after walking here from the border I got a ride in minutes straight to Tartu.

Okay bus stop towards Tsirguliina or Tartu-Valga highway, cars come from around the corner tho and traffic density is low, wait times of 10-40 minutes expected

Best spot for going out of Viljandi towards Tartu, cars come slow from turn, just be between the roundabout and Valuste road turn since if you go too up, you'll start bothering cars turning. Wait time of 5-20 minutes expected.

Since Siimusti turn doesn't really work nor inside Jõgeva I have started to use this inbetween area, which usually works within 30 minutes if headed to Tartu direction

Got near here with a bus from the city centre (it’s also possible to take it for free, if you dare). The first car I approached was an Estonian number plated car, but they were heading to Tartu, if I didn’t have a plan to visit my grandma first, I would’ve went with them, but I needed to go towards Ikla. So I fortunately found a woman driving to Ādaži.

More local traffic, but some people head from Rapla to Tartu, so I was counting on that (as I personally like to take this route with my car to Tartu). Walked from the centre of Rapla to here. A couple stopped and took me from here to all the way to Tartu with a quick stop in a graveyard in the middle of Estonia where they planned on stopping and I had no problem with that as I just wanted to be home by the evening.

Nice and easy spot for cars to stop. It’s a bus stop. Got a straight ride to Tartu from here.

You can easily get here from Tartu city centre with a bus (also for free as I do, if you dare). A lot of people drive in the evening from Tartu towards Mustvee or even Jõhvi, so I’ve hitched a ride from here to my friend’s place several times and had no problems getting a ride even straight to the place I wanted.

This is so far my best, fastest and coolest experience in Estonia! So an undercover/secret service agent who was on a mission to drive towards Ida-Viru, took me, even though he was in a hurry, as they had just captured some criminals that needed to be interrogated there. He had done hitchhiking himself when he was younger and that’s why he had stopped. So he told me that he’d get me to Tartu very fast and that he will speed and he cannot be fined (going waaaay over the speed limit lol) as it’s a work reason, though he was in a normal civilian car (we got to Tartu in less than 45 min instead of an hour). I won’t and can’t get into details but he told me lots about his previous work in the police, chasing criminals, those high-speed chases, loopholes in the law etc. He obviously wasn’t allowed to give me any information on his current job though I tried my best to feed my curiosity. I really felt like I was in an action movie, so I truly loved this experience in my home country with this lovely man working for the safety of our nation! 😎

A bus stop where a judo coach stopped and took me across to Viljandi and even took me a bit further to a bus stop so I’d have a good chance to get from there straight to Tartu.