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What is this place? Yes, this is the once famous Haw Par Villa. It looks kind of deserted now with only a handful of tourists.

This is a FREE admission leisure park or villa (opens daily) for the family. Prisca was quite excited about this place initially visualizing friendly cartoon characters welcoming us and having roller coasters, etc. ha-ha. But we have told her that there were ‘monsters’ in here to mentally prepare her for those ghastly figurines.

Please do not climb on top of these sculptures as warned by the sign board.

I have re-visited this place after donkey-years ago (teenage times perhaps?).

Here is a location map. As you can see, this is quite a large place for one family to explore.

This is the signboard showing the direction of the famous “10 Courts of Hell” in the Chinese Taoist legend.

Wow! This is an extraordinary “tiger” vintage car. It belongs to the two brothers founders I guessed.

A famous Chinese poems saying, “Good actions/ deeds ripe good karma; Bad actions/ deeds ripe bad karma; if one has not encounter either good or bad karmas, it is the time that has not yet come.” (Hope that I have translated these correctly he-he).

Do you dare to enter this “10 Courts of Hell” now? I didn’t take any photos inside here as I superstitiously believed that I may captured some “good brothers” unintentionally inside here ha-ha. Anyway, it was not that scary inside this hell, just that the figurines were kind of ghastly and bloody. What can one expect inside a ‘hell’, Mickey Mouse waving to the tourists? Hahhaa…LOL.

A wishing well that does not ‘attract’ anyone to throw a coin into it. The water was just too deep and dark.

This is a model showing the real villa of the founder. He was really a rich man.

This is a photo showing how rowdy it was inside this Haw Par Villa during 1937.

This is a cute little tigress holding the products of the founders – Tiger Balm gel.

If you like photography of old traditional Chinese architectures, you will like this place.

This place is just lacking of enough funds for maintenance; look at the little tree growing on the Buddha’s legs.

This is a nice place actually if proper maintenance and further development were being carried out.

There are lots of steps to explore this place. Please remember to bring more water and some insect repellents as well.

Water hyacinths! This is a familiar water plant during the school days biology class. This a pig and tortoise favourite meal.

Sculptures of the “Journey to the West “.

Hey! Looks who is riding on Rev. Tripitaka’s White Dragon (name of the white horse)? Ha-ha.

Crab monster? I guessed it means that a person who had done bad deed had reborn into a crab.

A King Kong family?

Sculptures showing one should not engage into addiction of gambling. It harms!

Sculptures showing one should be generous in helping the needy. Two men were donating to the poor villagers in these sculptures.

Sculptures showing a lady were being forcefully dragged away into prostitution.

This is an interesting sculpture showing a big turtle saving a man called Wan Qing (from a capsize ship) who had saved the turtle at a market from being becoming a food on the table. Good deed ripe good karma indeed!

Sculptures showing the three sworn brothers in the story of the famous “3 Kingdoms”.

Large masks which had terrified Prisca.

The three deities love by most Chinese families – Gods of Fortune, Wealth and Long Life.

Btw, one does not have to explore this villa by stairs! One could use the ramp instead.

Well, this is a great place for a child to learn about the moral of life – do good and not evil!