What's... hitchhiking?

Hitchhiking is a apply utilized by many vacationers by which they ask drivers to take them (or drop them) to their vacation spot to be able to avoid wasting cash on the journey, to get to locations the place public transport doesn't attain or to get into the native tradition.

• In some elements of South America the hitchhiker reveals the again of his hand with the index finger raised.

• In India the hand is waved palm down.

• In Israel, the index finger factors the way in which.

The process may be very easy: historically, hitchhikers waited on the fringe of the highway with their hand closed and their thumb pointed within the desired route , though at the moment, vacationers additionally usually show their vacation spot on a roadside signal or "board" a drivers at gasoline stations and relaxation areas.

When hitchhiking, it's important to decide on a spot that has good visibility (to be able to be seen from afar) and, as well as, that provides drivers the possibility to cease with out endangering visitors. You must make issues straightforward! As well as, personally, I think about the sensations that the vacationers transmit to me crucial.

We expect that the hitchhiking gesture is common, however we should have in mind the place on this planet we're if we need to get stopped:

There are even locations the place our hitchhiking gesture (picture above) is frowned upon and is taken into account offensive. Watch out to not do it in Russia, Sardinia or some West African nations...

As a curiosity, within the language of the scuba diver, divers use it to point that they need to floor. This, for novice divers, is likely one of the greatest confusions when studying to dive. The gesture that all the pieces is ok is the OK. ;)-