Good to know before you travel to the Czech Republic

1. One of the best public transportation in Europe

One of the things we can certainly be proud of in the Czech Republic. The public transportation here is very good and still pretty cheap (even for Czechs pretty affordable)

Train

Believe or not, Czech Republic has the highest rail network density in the whole world. It's such a small country, to most of the places you can get by train! I've run into a few blogs and websites

Bus

The Czech rail network works just very well, but if all the train connections are not enough for you, it will be covered by buses. 

Traveling in Romania by bus has also its worse side, though. They aren't really comfortable, only exceptionally have an air conditioning so in summer months you may enjoy a couple of hours in a sauna bus.  Many lines (even many long-distance lines) are operated by small buses so if you have long legs like me...well, sitting with your hip straight but your upper body to the side needs some yoga practice. And last but not least, they are also slow. Throughout the country you can find only a few kilometers of highways, they basically don't have express roads, so even the main roads go through towns and villages, thus in case of big traffic, an accident or other road works, your journey may take much longer than expected. The timetables are very approximate and sometimes you just wait for a bus that finally never arrives. Yeah, public transportation in Romania is lots of fun - sometimes the drivers forget to stop, sometimes they stop for someone waiting in the middle of a field. Once there were people loading like 200 kg of potatoes 😀

To find your connection with timetables, use Idos.cz, it works perfect.

Cars

Because of the reason mentioned above, hitch-hiking in Czechia is not common, it's actually very rare. Both trains and buses are quite fast and cheap so there is actually not really a point in wasting your time by waving at cars. Perhaps for the same reason, perhaps of a different mentality, I don't know, but even carsharing doesn't work well. I've never used it here myself, never really heard of anyone else who has done that, and if you look at  Blablacar, you won't find many offers.

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