FIG Working Week 2005 in Cairo, Egypt
April 16-21, 2005

From Pharaohs to Geoinformatics

Picture Gallery 7 - Social Events

Links to

• Report of the Conference

• Picture Gallery 1 - Opening Ceremony

• Picture Gallery 2 - Administrative Meetings I  (General Assembly I)

• Picture Gallery 3 - Administrative Meetings II  (General Assembly II, President's meeting, Council and ACCO meetings)

• Picture Gallery 4 - Technical Conference and Exhibition and Venue

• Picture Gallery 5 - Member Associations, Sister Organisations and Geospatial Information Societies

• Picture Gallery 6 - Closing Ceremony

• Picture Gallery 7 - Social Events (Egyptian Evening and Gala Dinner)

• Opening Address of Prof. Holger Magel, President of FIG
• Summary of the Conference at the Closing Ceremony by Prof. Holger Magel, President of FIG
• Conference Proceedings
• List of participants

Egyptian Evening - FIG Foundation Dinner
Welcome to the Egyptian Evening that was at the same time the FIG Foundation Dinner to collect money to help young surveyors especially from developing countries.	The dinner was held at the Al Ezba Restaurant.
Welcome in an ancient Egyptian way.	Delegates from Jordan and Lebanon.
President Holger Magel and Jack Dangermond, Honorary President of the FIG Foundation.	Founding member of the FIG Foundation at the dinner.
Egyptian music during the dinner: Robert Foster, Stig Enemark, President of DdL, Denmark and Hagen Graeff, President of DVW, Germany - all founding members of the Foundation.
Egyptian barbeque for the dinner.
Followed by camel riding.
:.. traditional dancing without forgetting belly dancing.
Gala Dinner
President Holger Magel welcomes the participants to the Gala Dinner on behalf of FIG...	... and President Harlan Onsrud on behalf of GSDI.
Three lucky winner got a free hotel weekend in Munich after FIG 2006 and with the help of President Magel, President Hagen Graeff and Congress Director Thomas Gollwitzer ...	... we have a lucky winner from Chile (and the other two from India and Lithuania).
The evening was for old and new friendships - here the old ones from Morocco (Aziz Hilali, President of ONIGT).	"Presidents Dinner" - presidents of IHO, FIG, ICA and ISPRS.
Table of the local organising committee...	... and German delegation preparing for FIG 2006...
... and Greek delegation enjoying after FIG 2004...	... and the Ghanaian surveyors waiting for 2006...
... and the Swedes for Working Week 2008...	... and the rest just having fun (Danes)...
... and Hungarians.