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to eat and drink," she said.

Many of the visitors are Christians but Huibers said he also gets a lot of visits from (nondenominational) state schools.

With some 30,000 visitors since the opening April 30th this year the ark is proving popular, perhaps somewhat surprisingly in the Netherlands where only one in five people say they attend church regularly.

"I have already touched do many people that it is already a success for me," Huibers said.

He wants to spread his message further with a tour of the Netherlands. He is sailing to Rotterdam where he will moor in the harbour in August. On the way he hopes to be allowed to open the boat to visitors in Amsterdam. After Rotterdam there are plans to go to the eastern Netherlands to Arnhem and then on to Germany via the Rhine.

The small entrance fee visitors pay is helping Huibers realise his next goal: a bigger ark the actual size of the ship described in the Bible.

"That's my dream and I'm looking forward to it but it depends on the visitors," he said.

He calculated he would need five million euros (6.71 million dollars) to build such an ark.

"If things continue to go this well I could start within a year," he said, smiling.

With the bigger ark come bigger plans.

"It will be built to navigate European waters," Huibers says, dreaming of sailing that ark to Barcelona and beyond.

Already the ark in Schagen draws visitors from all over the world. On a weekday morning two American sisters said took a few days out from their holiday in Sweden to travel over a 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) the Netherlands especially to see Huibers' ark.

"The idea that a man could make an ark, I wanted to see it," Donna Hiesew from Pennsylvannia explained.

She said the visit had reinforced her faith.

"I can't explain how it makes you feel on the inside,
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