Saturday, January 7, 2012

Haw par villa, a special park...

The credit of our visit to Haw par villa should go to my American colleague R who spent 9 months in Singapore without his family and became expert at walking all corners of Singapore at weekends.
Haw par villa is referenced as a theme park in Singapore guidebooks. It is actually the garden of the house which once belonged to the founders of the famous tiger balm. There are no roller coaster just some very weird statues illustrating Chinese legends and a few reminders of tiger balm.

Most displays are linked to hell/dying/purgatory and all the horrors you'll have to go through after death if you haven't been a very very good girl/boy!
Another strong theme is the half woman half seafood creatures. And this one doesn't even seem to be linked to Chinese legends...



Add to that a statue of liberty, a few scary masks and a few Chinese people dancing and you get a feeling for this very weird spot of Singapore...



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