We are sitting by the pool. But that only is because we have to abandon the room for a while for the cleaners, otherwise we would have stayed put. It is (reletively) cold and raining. And it is a holiday, so Willy is home too. Shared misery. So it was a good thing that we went out both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday we went to see the Haw Par Villa. It is really a theme park created by the founder of Tiger Balsam. He got very rich and wanted to return something to society, which of course is good and more rich people should do likewise, but maybe find a different expression. There was a number of tableus depicting some ancient stories. And a grotto with tableaus depicting, very graphically, the 10 stages of hell. Personally I think that the punishments were a bit severe. And at the end of the journey, the soul gets a cup of tea with some ingredient which makes them forget everything - so that they will do it all over again?
Sunday we went to the big ?? bird park. The first exibition we saw was penguins. They were inside a house, and it all looked a bit sad. We certainly felt sorry for the poor things.But otherwise it was good. There were a lot of big enclosues with various birds, like different species of birds of paradise. Just strange that they have these wonderfull colors and are supposed to be real show-offs, and then they hide when we approached. There was this very big enclosure with a lot of smaller parrots. And we saw lizzards in the treetops. Big, but hard to spot as they were green.
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