Haw Par Villa
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Haw Par Villa

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Time Out says

Opened in 1937, this weird and wonderful park was named after its owners, Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, the brothers who made their fortune from the acclaimed cure-all ointment Tiger Balm (it's also known as Tiger Balm Gardens). Multicoloured statues and tableaux depict scenes from Chinese history and mythology. A new attraction, Hell's Museum, provides historical and philosophical context to ideas of life and death across Asia and leads up to the highlight – the Ten Courts of Hell. Responsible for childhood nightmares for generations of Singaporeans, these small-scale tableaux show human sinners being punished in a variety of hideous and bloodthirsty ways – in extremely gory and graphic detail. It’s a safe bet that you will never see anything like it anywhere else. Read our guide to this kooky theme park in Singapore.

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Address
262 Pasir Panjang Road
Singapore
118628
Opening hours:
Daily 9am-8pm; Hell's Museum: Tue-Sun 10am-6pm
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Haw Ror Villa 4

It’s official – Halloween season has arrived. While some might be content with light-hearted trick-or-treating, thrill-seekers can dive straight into the deep end with Haw Ror Villa 4, taking over Singapore’s infamous Hell Museum. This year’s edition marks the final instalment of Haw Par Villa’s annual horror event, and it’s pulling out all the stops. Across three sprawling zones, you’ll face everything from survival challenges to supernatural mysteries. In Zone 1, brace yourself for the Haw Par Villa scare house, where you’ll need to escape the clutches of a sinister ancient cult. Zone 2 takes a more cerebral turn with a guided tour-cum-investigation, as you interrogate malevolent spirits to crack a case. The last stop is a puzzle hunt from ‘hell’ where rituals, sacred totems and solving clues are your only way to open the portal to the Ten Courts of Hell. And if that’s not unnerving enough, step into the Rebirthing Experience Room. Here, you can actually lie inside a coffin, a practice drawn from Thai and Korean rituals, to symbolically purge bad karma and welcome good juju.
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