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Hitchhiking from Lyon to Warsaw

About 27 h 44 min of hitchhiking — roughly 2113 km in 11 ride(s), including about 6 h 33 min of waiting by the road. These figures come from rides hitchhikers logged on this map, not from an estimate.

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Step by step

  1. Get from Lyon to a hitchhiking spot near Lyon — 1.7 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.
  2. Hitch 58.2 km (35 min) from Lyon to Aire de Taponas. Expect around 36 min of waiting here. 4 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  3. Hitch 117.2 km (1 h 10 min) from Aire de Taponas to Aire de Beaune-Merceuil. Expect around 25 min of waiting here. 4 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  4. Hitch 252.6 km (2 h 32 min) from Aire de Beaune-Merceuil to Aire de la Porte d’Alsace. Expect around 37 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  5. Hitch 161.7 km (1 h 37 min) from Aire de la Porte d’Alsace to Renchtal Ost. Expect around 34 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  6. Hitch 213.8 km (2 h 08 min) from Renchtal Ost to Gräfenhausen Ost. Expect around 34 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  7. Hitch 44.5 km (27 min) from Gräfenhausen Ost to Friedrichsdorf. Expect around 28 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  8. Hitch 381.0 km (3 h 49 min) from Friedrichsdorf to Raststätte Helmstedt. Expect around 1 h 01 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  9. Hitch 177.4 km (1 h 46 min) from Raststätte Helmstedt to Michendorf. Expect around 26 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  10. Walk 0.3 km (4 min) from Michendorf to Autobahnraststätte Michendorf-Süd.
  11. Hitch 117.3 km (1 h 10 min) from Autobahnraststätte Michendorf-Süd to Raststätte Biegener Hellen Süd. Expect around 32 min of waiting here. 4 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  12. Hitch 23.5 km (14 min) from Raststätte Biegener Hellen Süd to MOP Sosna. Expect around 51 min of waiting here. 8 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  13. Hitch 565.9 km (5 h 40 min) from MOP Sosna to Warsaw. Expect around 27 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  14. Get from a hitchhiking spot near Warsaw to Warsaw — 5.3 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.

What hitchhikers said along this route

“Direction Paris/Dijon. Walk from Perrache Station to Pont Kitchener. Traffic stops shortly at the traffic lights. Make eye contact with drivers. Finding a ride can take a while but is worth waiting for. Show sign "Limonest" which is only 5 km outside Lyon. Ask driver to put you off at the gas station near Parc Dardilly, which is a real good spot for finding a further ride.”
― Anonymous · Lyon
“No place to stop, If you find a brave/crazy driver it can work, but I advise rather the petrol stations. Direct verbal contact works the best!”
― Anonymous · Lyon
“there is an entrance from a parking lot to the big street going to the freeway. Cars can stop there without hindering the traffic too much. I was lucky and got picked up with some other guy within 15 minutes”
― Anonymous, 2011-07-28 · Lyon
“No space for drivers to stop anymore without hindering the traffic”
― Cigale, 2015-09-08 · Lyon
“I was always lucky on this bridge”
― Anonymous, 2011-05-27 · Lyon
“Pointless trying there, there is no where to stop, it's designed like this, you need to go further south in Lyon, near Oullin, or after where the 2 rivers meet!”
― Anonymous, 2011-09-01 · Lyon
“i tried before and after the traffic lights, asked the drivers, smiled, during 2 hours... a girl passing by told me it usually works pretty easily for her.”
― Mikan, 2015-02-25 · Lyon
“Used a sign with "Villefranche" - clearer than "Péage" - and I got a ride to the Péage anyway. Not to much place to stop but really a lot of people passing”
― Noosk, 2013-08-05 · Lyon
“In May 2013 Insa and Jan hitched from this spot to direction Bordeaux. We weren’t taken to the Péage because the person wasn’t going there, but dropped off at a roundabout on the way which was also good.”
― Jan, 2014-03-14 · Lyon
“There is not a place to curb, but drivers are all stopped when the light is red so I held my sign to the stopped drivers. One slowed and brought me to the peage at Villefranche.”
― Azh, 2013-11-13 · Lyon

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Waiting times and distances are averages from community-logged rides. Travel time assumes 100 km/h in a car and 5 km/h walking. They are not guarantees.


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