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Especially when walking around Kraków (or on

to the new schedule (and be aware that, even if

the journey to Poland), please encourage the

group members’ eyes have adjusted, their

group to put their cell phones away and pay

bodily functions may not; groups should plan

attention their surrounding areas. Leaders

their bathroom breaks accordingly when

should pay attention to pilgrims who may stop

traveling). Prior to the return trip, leaders

to use their phones for taking pictures or using

should advise their pilgrims that they may also

it for emergency calls. It is important to stay

need some time to recover and re-adjust their

vigilant with mobile devices while traveling.

sleeping patterns and cycles to a normal routine
upon re-entry into the United States.

Time Change
Kraków and Poland (and most of the European

Passports and International Travel

continent, except for the British Isles) is six

Traveling internationally involves additional

hours ahead of the Eastern Time Zone, nine

challenges for World Youth Day pilgrims. The

hours ahead of the Pacific Time Zone, and

U.S. Department of State has a website

eleven hours ahead of the Hawaii-Aleutian

(http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/

Time Zone during the summer months, when

general/americans-traveling-abroad.html) to

World Youth Day will take place.

assist United States citizens traveling abroad
and specific information for traveling to Poland

For example, 6:00 P.M. in Kraków is 12:00

including important travel warnings and alerts

P.M. in New York, 11:00 A.M. in Chicago,

(http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/

10:00 A.M. in Denver, 9:00 A.M in Los

country/poland.html).

Angeles, 8:00 A.M. in Alaska, and 7:00 A.M. in
Hawaii. There is also more common usage of

United States citizens will need a valid U.S.

the 24-hour clock in Europe (for instance,

passport to travel to Poland and that it has

18:00 instead of 6:00 P.M.); consequently,

at least six months of validity left for

pilgrims should be aware of how to quickly and

international travel (which means passports

accurately tell time using this system.

used for the trip to Kraków should be valid
through February 1, 2017 or later).

On the first day of arrival in Europe, pilgrims
(and leaders) should give themselves a few

International travelers are encouraged to

hours of rest to catch up on the sleep lost on

register their trip with the United States State

the flight over; it may take a few days to adjust

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