Haw Par Villa

This guide to Haw Par Villa follows brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, who built a Tiger Balm fortune from their father's herbal ointment, and the hilltop villa Boon Haw gave his brother in 1937. It traces what happened when Japanese forces occupied the estate in 1942, why Boon Par fled to Rangoon, and how Boon Haw rebuilt the grounds after the war into a park of statues teaching lessons about good and evil. Look for the six-tiered dioramas near the entrance, where the story of two brothers begins.