Hitchhiking from Bankya
Hitchhiking to Bankya
Recent reviews mentioning Bankya
43.37903, 21.81062
There is WiFi and shade.Alot of traffic from cars trucks and busses.
Sign to Sofia.
Alot of busses leaving the parking looked and gestured me like they would have taken me but couldn't stop again so maybe be visible to them or directly ask them.
Just before i wanted to call it a night in the nearby field on my last round of asking people a trucker took me all the way to Sofia:) The walk across the border to BG is longer than usual if you get there by truck since they get separated a few hundred meters earlier
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―SamuRai
42.74528, 23.2295
Maybe I just got unlucky, but I stood here for more than an hour. For the first 50 minutes, I stood here with a sign SRB. After that, I switched to Dragoman and got a ride to a gas station there in half an hour. I would say a lot of local traffic. The traffic light is 30 sec green, 30 sec red.―martih
43.43967, 24.99128
I think this is an awesome spot. If you have the energy to ask, there are a lot of people stopping here for a quick bite, if not, just thumbing with a sign worked pretty decently for me. I really cool dude stopped for me and brought me all the way to Sofia. The cars are slow, and there is a place to stop easily.―martih
42.60194, 23.11286
We tried other spots before this one, but ultimately found this one as the best. It is far from ideal though, stand at the bending point between the little place to stop and the entry to the road.―Filipnatripu
42.66516, 23.25964
waited mby for 40 minutes getting 4 cars all going for Pernik, we tried to get a better ride, but ended up going to Pernik. Great spot, u can get there by tram―Filipnatripu
43.12477, 22.61799
Not the best, the gate was almost empty so we decided to move to this spot and got a ride along the old road ro Sofia―Filipnatripu
42.69571, 23.23035
noone wanted to stop―Mariva269
42.73763, 23.24293
Pretty good! Traffic was chill but someone saw me and came back to pick me up. Apparently they had seen hitchhikers there before as well. Good stop!!!―Anonymous
42.99343, 22.8445
Asked to the first truck that i saw for a lift to sofia, he said yes. Kind gentlemen―Mick
42.60359, 23.0842
Probably a bad spot at the gas station on the highway, cars can't slow down and almost no traffic at the gas station. After 10 min a guy going to Kjustendil gave us a lift and drove us to the border to North Macedonia―Clemimens
42.66515, 23.25952
Good spot as you catch the traffic of three directions. Made a sign with Pernik and Macedonia on it. Got a lift within 10 min towards Pernik―Clemimens
41.72546, 26.32405
Bad spot. Very few cars which go to gas station, most of them are not friendly tbh. Quite all of the cars are full with people or with their stuff. Right after gas station sometimes there chill border police, we got lucky to be with them the whole day. They tell not to go to the exit of gas station because it’s dangerous. Fortunately after around 5-6 hours of waiting time at around 10 pm we got a lift to Sofia.―ptulish
42.65089, 23.21785
We got around 4 cars which stopped to take us (to Skopje to Parnik), but we were three people so got a car to Kustendil―ptulish
42.73763, 23.24293
This place was perfect to go to Serbia. Someone took me to Niš. My last destination was Belgrade, but from Niš to Belgrade was easy as well―Ana06
42.65089, 23.21843
Had a sign for MKD, not a lot of Macedonian cars but I got a ride to close to the border next to Blagoevgrad―Arphile
43.81467, 25.92853
Despite it being dark and me standing with a sign I got picked up all the way to Sofia quickly. The lights are good enough for nighttime hitchhiking, otherwise there’s always the gas station.―Arphile
43.27548, 24.09655
Preskaŭ ĉe la elirejo de la urbo estas rapidbremso kun zebrokruco. Ĝi ŝajnas perfekta, sed plej multaj homoj venantaj el ĉi tiu urbo estas plejparte timemaj, embarasitaj aŭ ksenofobiaj. Malgranda kamiono bonŝance prenis min rekte al Sofio. Mi provis 10-kilometran ŝildon, sed ĝi estis senefika.―Jurobola
43.19235, 22.56316
It's hard to say how good this place is. We were heading towards Sofia/Istanbul -> the driver heading to Pirot left us there saying it was a good place. Generally, cars don't drive very fast there – they see you and your sign, but there's no gas station or anything like that. After about half an hour, we managed to catch a truck heading to Sofia. There are often queues of trucks at the border, so there's a chance you'll cross the border and ask drivers one by one if they can take you to Istanbul. We finally made it to Sofia that day, but I think there's a chance you'll catch a driver going further.―Moonhans
44.34362, 21.0789
Good spot, found a ride to Bulgaria in seconds (he was going all the way to Burgas).―anettlee17
42.72213, 23.23784
It’s a shit place. We were trying to go to North Macedonia. We got recommended to go to the border town Kjustendil first. After we changed the sign from City names to 10km we got picky up after 5min.―Anonymous