The bizarro landscape of Chinese mythology-themed park Haw Par Villa has laid dormant for the past several years ever since it went through a period of decline in the late nineties.
Today however, the theme park where the childhood of Singapore’s kids go to die may soon see a new lease of life — the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has appointed tour operator Journeys to operate and manage Haw Par Villa in a three-year contract.
According to STB, Journeys will take charge of the park’s programming as well as the management of potential retail, food and beverage spaces within the attraction.
The new management is expected to revitalise one of Singapore’s oldest theme parks, which is pretty much the only Chinese mythological park of its kind.
“Our vision has always been to position Singapore as a heritage destination of choice and with Haw Par Villa, we aim to return it to its former glory and more,” remarked Journeys Pte Ltd’s director Chan Ying-Loone. “We look forward to working closely with the community to organise more activities to breathe new life to this historical and cultural gem of Singapore.”
In case you want to know just how utterly bonkers this theme park is, just know that Haw Par Villa has a section called the Ten Courts of Hell, featuring dioramas of people being brutally tortured and killed in the worst ways possible by various demons. Also, there are just some totally lunatic dioramas there.
Cheers to three more years of Singapore’s children pissing their pants in horrific confusion.
Photos: Jirka Matousek; Walter Lim; Rudy Herman via Flickr
