Sun Plaza Park
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Sun Plaza Park is a 9.6-hectare park in Tampines, Singapore.
Activities[edit]
A prominent sun motif displayed in the centre of the plaza. There is also an amphitheatre with a stage and seating areas with a capacity for 700 people. It is used for outdoor concerts, exhibitions, performances and family or group functions.
The Sense Discovery Garden with 10 stations of interactive play features is another feature of the park. It includes texture walls, talking tubes, chimes, a tumbler and organic texture walk, an entry sign with recessed wordings and symbols, ladder wall, sliding beads, herbal wall and "toes" in which intriguing sounds and other sensations can be experienced by park users.
A beach ball court and a woodball course are part of the park. The woodball course has hosted local and international woodball tournaments. It has twelve fairways and complies with internationally accepted standards.
The Fantasy Land Playground is another special feature of the park where visitors get to experience the feel of fantasy with fun characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes. There are also a 3m tall giant kangaroo with a built-in tunnel in its body for children to crawl through and huge elephant and crocodile slides. A large sandpit and various play equipment including a 20m long cableway ride are available for fun and enjoyment.
Visitors can relax, cycle or jog in the park. Activities like inline skating and kite flying can also be enjoyed in the park. If you would like to exercise with a big community, you can always join the ongoing FitClub by Weight Loss Kakis every Monday, Tuesday and Friday evenings at the amphitheater.
The park is also home to a Streblus elongatus tree. Known as "tempinis", the Tampines River and New Town of Tampines may have been named for the species which purportedly grew in the area.[1]
Tampines Eco Green opened next to the park in 2011.[2] The parks are part of the "green spine"[3] of Singapore and can be used as a connector to reach Bedok Reservoir Park and Pasir Ris Park. Tampines Bike Park located nearby closed in 2014 and is being developed with buildings.
The Downtown East station of Downtown Line 3 connects to the park a via bike path.[4] A plan to integrate the paths at Sun Plaza Park with a network of bicycle paths was being implemented as of 2018.
Sun Plaza Park is one of the areas used by birders.[5]
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- ↑ Keng, Hsuan; Keng, Ro-Siu Ling Keng (17 May 1990). "The Concise Flora of Singapore: Gymnosperms and Dicotyledons". NUS Press – via Google Books.
- ↑ http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110424-275303.html
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=sWxtDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA121&dq="sun+plaza+park"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWhPW_3YzbAhVpmK0KHTXvALkQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q="sun%20plaza%20park"&f=false
- ↑ https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/where-to-go-and-what-to-see-on-downtown-line-3
- ↑ https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/bird-owners-of-a-feather-flock-together
