the "haw par villa" or "tiger palm gardens" is a kind of theme park which is quite amazing and full of phantastic creatures and stories - and also an orgy of kitsch ... originally built in 1937 as a villa for the brothers boon haw and boon par (who made a huge fortune with the multi-purpose cream 'tiger balm'), it became a public park in the eighties ... more than a thousand of statues and frescos are scattered throughout the pleasantly laid-out grounds, depicting lots of gods, all sorts of heroes, many moral tales and a cruel hell as well ...
