Hitchhiking from Shelek
Hitchhiking to Shelek
Recent reviews mentioning Shelek
43.57831, 78.20781
DIRECTION CHINA 🇨🇳 : Not the best spot but will work in the end. There is room to stop but trucks are going too fast. If you go for launch or dinner there will be many vehicles parked. You can eat, toilets, not too bad neither.I was taken by Omka to Jarkent where you need to pay a bus to go after the border, in a shared taxi that agreed taking me for free because I said I was hitchhiking all the way from France. Even the other people inside were joyful of helping me.
I waited long time but I would say that you can find faster than me. My driver was driving at 140km/h so it was no problem hahaha
M36
―cavalierrustique
43.4641, 77.03331
DIRECTION CHINA 🇨🇳 : To come here, you can take different buses (check 2GIS/Yandex) it should take 1h30+ from city center considering traffic in Almaty is chaotic.Here, cars and trucks will go either North either East. Personally, I have catch a small truck that was going East to Shelek and asked him to dropped me in the rest area before the town, so I could catch a longer ride. However, there is not a perfect spot but it will work. I waited almost an hour, trucks go too fast to stop.
Rahmet Shakh! M46
―cavalierrustique
43.60586, 78.31364
Took less than 10min to catch a ride. He demanded money at the end. At the spot there is a restaurant and a bus stop. We just stood on the highway to catch all the traffic. Be there early, more cars will go to China.―GermanyToIndia
43.5671, 78.35248
A old men in a Volkswagen took us (ig he was a shared taxi but kapusta pusta made him laugh). He almost killed us on the way but was a great guy.―GermanyToIndia
43.59562, 78.28325
We got dropped here by friends and started hh. Some traffic but not much to the border. A guy pulled up and ended taking us to a random location. He loved ‚kapusta pusta‘ lmao―GermanyToIndia
43.60316, 78.31366
Pretty good spot. Some locals hitchhiking here too. Found a ride to Charyn Canyon entrance road quite fast.―VeikkaK
44.12216, 79.80177
Good spot despite somewhat quiet traffic. People take this southern route to Almaty, instead of the northern one also starting from this roundabout. I was going to Charyn Canyon so I hopped out midway through though.―VeikkaK
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