Haw Par Villa – what some bad drugs must feel like (Singapore)

While there are many things to see in Singapore, this is one. 🙂 I highly recommend a visit as it is like nothing else you’ll ever see. Hopefully.

On the western side of Singapore, a few miles due west of the main Singapore attractions of Gardens at the Bay and the harbor area, is a strange attraction, Haw Par Villa.

So much about it is odd. La Cucaracha was one of the songs that played over the loudspeaker at this historical-cultural attraction, and that was one of the least bizarre things going on there.

Just see the below pictures of the mostly unlabeled, unexplained displays at the site.

This is one of the main attractions, the building showing the dioramas of the Ten Courts of Hell. Where the punishments meted out are based on the crime. Punishments include being impaled on a tree of knives, or, a hill of knives (for different misdeeds). Being cut in half. Frozen in ice. Hearts cut out.

I particularly liked the holding area for those who had been wronged by others. There, you could ensure they got their punishment, before moving on to your own. For a lot of great pictures and info, check here.

Surrounding that building, climbing up the hillside, is a many-leveled park with hundreds of displays like this. The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Here is one somewhat shocking one, of a woman nursing her grandmother while her kids look on.

Like everywhere in Singapore, there are beautiful flowers all over the grounds. These sometimes clash with the morbid and violent images shown in the depicted scenes.

For example, that flower was right across from this seemingly bizarre displays like this illustration of a rabbit vs rat war.

Further into the park are odd animal displays. Pandas are popular.

Here are my videos from there. Don’t expect anything to make more sense after watching these.