Mr. Hans-Peter Seiler, and he lives here in Interlaken. So he has gone to his fellow politicians and asked for support. About a year ago we went on the shareholder market and asked for another CHF20 million and the Swiss banks helped. We still have at the moment CHF17 million in bank accounts, because the money will go away as soon as we start with the construction, and the construction should now start on 1st March, 2001. We need CHF80 million in total to build the park and at the next general assembly in Interlaken for all the shareholders, we will ask for another CHF20 million.
TWST: What do you think are your company's advantages compared to other
companies that are in the theme park business?
Mr. von Daniken: There are a lot of theme parks in the world, like
Disneyworld. And all these theme parks are fun parks. In our theme park
there is not one ride. We want to show the real mysteries, and we want
to show it in a three-dimensional way so that you become part of it. For
example, in Peru there is a gigantic desert; it's called the desert of
Nazca, south of Lima. When you are on the ground as a visitor you don't
see much, as soon as you fly over the desert with a small aircraft,
gigantic figures appear in the desert. In our Park we have a pavilion
where you will have a big screen in front of you, but this screen goes
beneath you, under your seat, so you have the impression of sitting on a
flying carpet, flying over this desert. You will have an earphone in
which you will receive, every scientific explanation which so far has
been brought forward for this mystery in Peru. But every scientific
explanation will end with a question mark. Also, they may say Mr von
Daniken suggests it has something to do with extra-terrestrials -
question-mark. Once you are out of this pavilion, you know you have been
flying over an incredible mystery of the world that our scientific
community has not been able to clarify. That is one example.
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