Social Events

Last updated: 11/14/2015

Ice-breaker-party

The first day of the International Seminar will take place at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Students and teachers will participate. At the end of the day a buffet with meals and drinks will be served in Kronbar at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

This social event is included in packages 1,2,3,4 and 6.

Dresscode: casual

Guided City Walk in Bergen

Walk with guide from hotel Zander K to Unesco Heritage Site Bryggen.

Theme: historical property structure as basis for city development.
Guide: Professor Geir Atle Ersland, University of Bergen.

Welcome at Bryggen by Bernt Håvard Øyen, director of Bryggen Foundation.

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/59

This social event is included in packages 1, 2 and 6.

Meeting point hotel entrance Zander K at 16:00
City walk will end with a walk up the hill to dinner at Sagen. Good shoes recommended

Dinner at Sagen (Walking distance from Bryggen)

Norwegian Meat will be served.

This social event is included in packages 1, 2 and 6

Meeting point hotel entrance Zander K at 16:00
Group will start with a guided city walk to Bryggen and from there walk up the hill to Sagen for dinner starting at 19:30

Dresscode: casual

Commission 7 Gala Dinner (By boat from Bryggen)

The dinner will be in Restaurant Cornelius at Bjorøy, an island in the Bergen archipelago, a 25 minutes boat trip from Bryggen. We will be served the 5-course Meteorological Menu.

This social event is included in packages 1,2 and 6.

Meeting point hotel entrance Zander K at 18:40

Dresscode: casual

Excursion Norway-in-a-nutshell Tour to Nærøyfjorden – Flåm with theme: compensation of land rights

The tour takes you by train to Voss, by bus to Gudvangen and then through Norway’s most breathtaking

UNESCO-protected fjord and mountain scenery, as well as a trip on Europe’s top scenic rail journeys,

Flåmsbanen to Myrdal station. Theme: regulations in a Unesco protected area and compensation of land

rights.

This is an optional event. Dining not included.

Take the tour in advance on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMVoKFsz3RY

Meeting point hotel entrance Zander K at 8:25

Dresscode: warm clothes, sturdy shoes, rain protection

Map –Norway in a nutshell

The theme for the Technical Tour of the FIG Annual Meeting will be the compensation for property rights and contradictions between tourism and the more traditional livehoods, like agriculture.

Starting from Bergen Railway Station (neighbouring building to Hotel Zander K) at 08:43, we first will set out on a scenic train journey to Voss on the Bergen Railway. From Voss we will travel by bus through charming villages and scenic nature landscapes, towards Gudvangen, down the steep hairpin bends of Stalheimskleiva.

The bus will arrive in Gudvangen, where we continue the tour by taking a fjord cruise on the narrow Nærøyfjord and the magnificent Aurlandsfjord. The Aurlandsfjord is a picturesque fjord that offers stunning views, while the Nærøyfjord is a dramatic fjord surrounded by high mountains. Nærøyfjorden is one of the most narrow fjords in Europe and included on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

After the fjord cruise we arrive in the small village of Flåm, nestled in the innermost part of the Aurlandsfjord. Here we will stop and have lunch and drinks, and after that the tour continues by taking the legendary Flåm Railway. The Flåm Railway offers spectacular panoramic views to some of the wildest and most magnificent nature in the Norwegian fjord landscape. The Flåm railway will have a stop at Kjosfossen before we arrive in Myrdal, where we change trains to the Bergen Railway. We will arrive in Bergen at 17:55. Alternative route as offered for participants to go directly to Oslo upon prior registration.