Dates

24th October until 1st November. Note this clashes will school term time, but should overlap with half term for most people.

Travel

We will be taking the following flights:

No.	From	To	Depart	Arrive
CA938	Heathrow T2	Beijing T3	23 Oct 20:25	24 Oct 13:05
CA1515	Beijing T3	Shanghai Hongqiao T2	24 Oct 15:30	24 Oct 17:40
CA1590	Shanghai Hongqiao T2	Beijing T3	1 Nov 08:50	1 Nov 11:15
CA937	Beijing T3	Heathrow T2	1 Nov 14:30	1 Nov 17:50

Ben Windsor will be leading the UK group and Zuzka Strakova will be leading the Czech group. The two groups will either meet at London Heathrow or Shanghai and travel together from there.

Programme

This programme is provisional and may change at any time before or during the week.

Date	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Tue 23 Oct			Meet at Heathrow Terminal 2, Level 5 at 17:30, at the meeting point between zone A and zone B.
Wed 24 Oct	Arrive in Shanghai. Join with Czech group for bus pick up	Arrive in Nanjing (hotel in Tangshan)
Thu 25 Oct	Opening ceremony, Hushan Park, plus competition	Tangshan Ape Cave	Confucius Temple
Fri 26 Oct	Training, the Secret Garden	Nanjing Museum	Tangshan Thermal Spring
Sat 27 Oct	Training, Tangjiajia	Purple Mountain Cableway	Experience Chinese Family Life
Sun 28 Oct	Training, Xijindu	Training, Zhenjiang	Fellowship Union
Mon 29 Oct	Training, Zhenjiang	Hiking	Shopping, Wanda Square
Tue 30 Oct	Competition, Dragon Back Mount (Yixing)	Training, Bamboo Sea	Fellowship Union
Wed 31 Oct	Training, Dragon Pond Park	Shanjuan Cave / Making Purple Clay Teapots	Farewell Party
Thu 1 Nov	Depart Shanghai	Arrive Heathrow

Visa

Information on visas can be found on the visa page. The information below is to help fill in the form for the 2018 trip.

• 1.9 Local ID/Citizenship number: This is only relevant for countries with an ID card. There’s a separate box for putting passport number so leave this one blank
• 1.10 Passport/Travel document type is Ordinary unless you have anything special
• 1.15 Occupation is Student
• 1.16 Education is Other - secondary school
• 2.1 Major purpose of your visit: you don’t actually apply for a visa type, they decide for you. Just tick Tourism since that’s the nearest option, and they’ll decide what that means
• 2.4 Expected date of first entry is 2018-10-24
• 2.5 Longest intended stay is 9 days
• 2.6 Itinerary can just be one line 24/10/2018-01/11/2018 MEIYUAN HOTEL, XUANWU DISTRICT, SI PAI LOU ER HAO, JIANGSU. This is Sun Yi’s address, the inviter. It will suffice for visa purposes even though we’ll most likely be staying at a different address.
• 2.7 Who will pay is JIANGSU SPORTS BUREAU
• 2.8 Inviter is
  • Name: JIANGSU SPORTS BUREAU (Contact SUN YI)
  • Address: 42 GONGYUAN ROAD, QINHUAI DISTRICT, NANJING, CHINA
  • Phone: +86 15195970089
  • Relationship: ORIENTEERING ORGANISER “THE BELT AND ROAD”