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Entrance to the Carribean Pirates river cruise at Hangang Park

Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is now showing in Singapore cinema. Movie review summarises it as one movie that is full of eye-candy special effects but with a plot that is difficult to comprehend. Frankly, I have not watched any of these Caribbean Pirates movies. From reading one of the movie synopsis, I came to know that the pirates in the movie would take their fight to Singapore waters. It is interesting to know that Singapore is made out to be an exotic place in the movie and which is supposedly found at the end of the world. I gather that the inclusion of Singapore in the movie plot has something to do with the frequent report of pirate attacks in the Malacca Straits, a heavily-used sea channel which is near to Singapore.

Talking about the movie, it reminds me of the Caribbean Pirates river cruise at Hangang Park at Yeouido. The river cruise can be taken at the Hangangland inside the park. We were there at the park on March 13, Tuesday evening, one day before the White Day. The park was quite deserted. The Caribbean Pirates river cruise was berthed alongside Hangangland waiting for nightfall when tourists were expected to arrive for the night cruise down the Han River. There were many ajummas selling roses at the park that evening. In fact, there were more ajummas selling roses than the number of couples in the park. By the time we left the park at about 8pm, it still seemed deserted. Perhaps couples only arrived later in the night and those ajummas were waiting to sell their roses to them.

The floating recreation house, Hangangland, at Hangang Park, Yeuido.