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Singapore’s Telok Blangah Hill Park is a dreamscape for city-bound nature lovers. A sleek fly-over infrastructure of bridges and platforms elevates visitors above the forest floor to give them a “monkey perspective,” with minimal effect on the greenery below, writes Pop-Up City. The views also include a 360-degree panorama of the city, a reminder that the city isn’t — and needn’t be — far away from the country. Dooooope.
Used as an important trading spot beginning in the early 19th century, the park has now found a more stable balance between the goings-on of the city and the buzz of the wilderness. It’s a balance often struck in Singapore and Hong Kong, too, cities that have sought a valuable mixture of urban density and tropical topology.
Like an immense, inverse version of New York’s High Line, the park’s high steel walkways allow visitors to pass over mangrove forests, the Sungei Cina river and stretches of tall trees, such as Eugenia, Alstonia and Rain trees. The park’s wildlife includes squirrels, sunbirds, doves, lizards and white-crested laughing thrushes. Take me there now please
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