Beijing (ANTARA News) - Three Swiss citizens vote in the most difficult to get to Shanghai from Zurich, the economic center of their country.They traveled by bicycle as far as 12.000Km and it takes time for four years, according to China Daily preached on Thursday, as quoted by Xinhua-OANA.
Gervas Graziano (51), Beat Fey (47), and Matthias Dudler (38), finally arriving at the Swiss Pavilion at Expo Park on Wednesday.
Their journey began in 2006, after three obsessed with cycling from Zurich to the Red Square in Moscow, the Russian capital, said the newspaper.
When they arrived in Moscow, they decided to do one stage every summer, and Shanghai became their goal in 2010, according to news from China Daily.
The journey from Zurich to Shanghai is divided into one stage each year.
The three Swiss citizens have a steady job - Gervas is a consultant at IBM, Fey a management adviser, and Dudler an asset manager. So, it is impossible for them to be a long vacation for many years.
After the first stage to Moscow, they travel from Moscow to Novosibirsk 3.400Km in 2008, then from Novosibirsk to Ulan Bator, Mongolia's capital, last year and finally from Ulan Bator to Shanghai.
Another reason they make the trip is to raise funds for SOS Children's Villages, an international development NGO operating since 1949 to meet the needs and protect the rights and interests of children.
According to reports, so far they have to raise 80,000 Swiss francs, equivalent to 76,067 U.S. Dollars. The fund has been delivered to the SOS Children's Villages in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. SOS Children's Village in Tianjin in the near future will also receive a portion of those funds, the China Daily said.
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