Hitchhiking from Sofia
Hitchhiking to Sofia
Recent reviews mentioning Sofia
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
1 male
―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
42.21461, 24.73022
good spot before A1 enter to Sofia sign, one man gave me a ride, wanted to continue to highway to Serbia, he thought he knows a better spot but left me on a very very wrong place on the other side of Sofia city―Mariva269
42.63232, 23.45266
First person I asked, could bring me to Plovdiv―Anonymous
42.632, 23.45718
great spot, cool shade underneath the tree. Only waited 10 minutes if you count walking to the otherside of the highway from the busstation.―Anonymous
42.63232, 23.45266
Really nice after traveling trough serbia:) really good spot―Anonymous
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
42.70711, 23.45781
Within a few minutes I found a friendly trucker who took me a good 1,5 h to a gas station on the highway.The spot is a bit weird because basically all the traffic on the road is leaving the highway. So you only really have a chance with people coming out of the gas station.
―Kartenhouse
42.63042, 23.46608
Stayed at the end of the gas station. A guy stopped after not a long time and took me all the way to burgas.―Mick
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
42.16982, 24.71951
We were hitchhiking as a couple an made a sign in Cyrillic with Sofia. Most drivers that go from Plowdiw to Sofia take that road to get to the highway. Took us 15 min to get a ride. Cars slow down due to the roundabout and can stop in the bus lane afterwards―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