Sembawang Hot Spring Park set to reopen on Jan 4, will have a Large Cascading Pool & Floral Walk

[kobayashiGT]

Sembawang Hot Spring Park set to reopen on Jan 4, will have a Large Cascading Pool & Floral Walk

source: https://www.greatdeals.com.sg/2019/12/30/sembawang-hot-spring-park-reopens

For those who missed Singapore’s only natural hot spring, the Sembawang Hot Spring (Park) located at Gambas Avenue between Woodlands Avenue 12 and Sembawang Road is currently finishing up its renovation.

According to NParks, the hot spring area will reopen on 4 January this Saturday.

New Pool & Amenities

The updated public park will have a new Cascading Pool, featuring natural spring water that was previously found in the same area.

According to the artist impressions provided by NParks, the pool also comes with sitting so that visitors can dip their legs into the pool which is said to have health healing properties.

Visitors will also be able to cook eggs from the running hot spring water but of course, you have to bring them yourselves.

There will be jogging paths and sheltered walkways in case it rains.

The redevelopment also means there are more amenities for visitors to enjoy the surrounding nature and unwind from the hustle and bustle of the city.

For those who have never visited the hot spring park, this is how it looks like previously. Inside the red brick enclosure is a hot spring well that was discovered way back in 1909.

However, NParks did not state if the enclosure has been removed or repurposed for other uses with the redevelopment.

Guess we will only know when it opens later this week.

Here’s a map detailing the areas and amenities of the renewed Sembawang Hot Spring Park.

Make a date with your friends and family this weekend and don’t forget to bring your eggs along for a healthy snack.

Sembawang Hot Spring Park

Address: Gambas Ave between Woodlands Ave 12 and Sembawang Rd
Opening Hours: 7am – 7pm daily

Nearest MRT Station: Canberra or Yishun

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=1.43011,103.829582&z=13&t=m&hl=en&gl=SG&mapclient=embed&cid=17342367463741762658

[Sdf4786k]

18 minutes ago, kobayashiGT said:

Sembawang Hot Spring Park set to reopen on Jan 4, will have a Large Cascading Pool & Floral Walk

source: https://www.greatdeals.com.sg/2019/12/30/sembawang-hot-spring-park-reopens

For those who missed Singapore’s only natural hot spring, the Sembawang Hot Spring (Park) located at Gambas Avenue between Woodlands Avenue 12 and Sembawang Road is currently finishing up its renovation.

According to NParks, the hot spring area will reopen on 4 January this Saturday.

New Pool & Amenities

The updated public park will have a new Cascading Pool, featuring natural spring water that was previously found in the same area.

According to the artist impressions provided by NParks, the pool also comes with sitting so that visitors can dip their legs into the pool which is said to have health healing properties.

Visitors will also be able to cook eggs from the running hot spring water but of course, you have to bring them yourselves.

There will be jogging paths and sheltered walkways in case it rains.

The redevelopment also means there are more amenities for visitors to enjoy the surrounding nature and unwind from the hustle and bustle of the city.

For those who have never visited the hot spring park, this is how it looks like previously. Inside the red brick enclosure is a hot spring well that was discovered way back in 1909.

However, NParks did not state if the enclosure has been removed or repurposed for other uses with the redevelopment.

Guess we will only know when it opens later this week.

Here’s a map detailing the areas and amenities of the renewed Sembawang Hot Spring Park.

Make a date with your friends and family this weekend and don’t forget to bring your eggs along for a healthy snack.

Sembawang Hot Spring Park

Address: Gambas Ave between Woodlands Ave 12 and Sembawang Rd
Opening Hours: 7am – 7pm daily

Nearest MRT Station: Canberra or Yishun

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=1.43011,103.829582&z=13&t=m&hl=en&gl=SG&mapclient=embed&cid=17342367463741762658

wasted no one build a small SPA like resort next to it ..

[Mockngbrd]

Got nuru nuru Spa? 

[Tohto]

So now will no more enclose inside Sembawang Airbase?

[UncleAtas]

Still no parking.

[Sdf4786k]

13 hours ago, UncleAtas said:

Still no parking.

have. Park across the HDB and walk across. Just don't get knock down by PMD and heavy trucks and let the children run on the road like a private estate ...

[Inlinefour]

12 hours ago, Mockngbrd said:

Got nuru nuru Spa? 

bring your own nuru gel before visiting Npark SoapLand 

[13177]

Still dont know where is this place? 😂

Edited December 31, 2019 by 13177

[Kb27]

Ever wonder where the heat is coming from ?

Or maybe you don't want to know.

[13177]

2 hours ago, Kb27 said:

Ever wonder where the heat is coming from ?

Or maybe you don't want to know.

Where ah? 🤔

[Mustank]

100 year history 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sembawang_Hot_Spring_Park

[Sdf4786k]

15 hours ago, 13177 said:

Still dont know where is this place? 😂

Hint hint .. there’s a reason why it name ulu Sembawang 

[Carbon82]

Sembawang Hot Spring Park reopens with new cascading pool and enhanced accessibility for wheelchair users

SINGAPORE - Things are heating up in Sembawang once again, with the reopening of Singapore's only hot spring.

The Sembawang Hot Spring Park reopened on Saturday (Jan 4) after a $4.3 million redevelopment, expanding from its original 0.1 hectare to 1.1 hectare now.

The park, which was closed in Aug 2018 for the development works, now features a new cascading pool and a water collection point, with enhanced accessibility for wheelchair users.

There are also educational panels for visitors to learn more about the history and geology of the hot spring park, which is accessible along Gambas Avenue.

Ms Kartini Omar, group director of parks development at the National Parks Board (NParks), said that in designing the park, "NParks incorporated feedback and suggestions from the community from a public consultation in end-2017".

Among the suggestions were having a food and beverage outlet, an activity lawn and toilets, and ensuring the park remains "rustic and natural", said Ms Kartini.

At the launch, Sembawang GRC MPs Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung, Amrin Amin and Lim Wee Kiak, with Nee Soon GRC MPs Lee Bee Wah and Faishal Ibrahim, planted Island Lychee and Hairless Rambutan trees to mark the occasion in front of over 450 residents.

The new features of the park, such as the cascading pool at the heart of the park, aim to bring the geothermally heated groundwater closer to visitors.

The cascading pool sees the water cool naturally as it flows down four tiers of pools, with visitors able to dip in.

The park is also more inclusive, with wheelchair-friendly ramps and a specially designed tap at the main water collection point for the disabled.

The water collection point allows visitors of all ages to use pails and scoops to collect water readily. Visitors may also cook eggs at this station.

NParks said in a media release that plants have been planted in the park to recreate kampung life, including fruit trees and edible plants commonly found in kampungs, and flowers commonly seen in the 1960s and 1990s.

There are also unpaved paths and naturalised streams flowing from the hot spring, to mimic the freshwater swamp forest landscape.

Mr Rakunathan Narayanan, 60, who has lived in Yishun for over 30 years, is glad that the rustic nature of the location is being preserved.

“They should have done this long ago. You won’t find this anywhere else in Singapore,” said the security officer. 

He has fond memories of cycling to the hot spring from about 30 years ago, when the area was still a kampung.

Jalan Mata Ayer resident Matthew Tan, 46, who works in the paint industry, said the different temperatures in each level of the cascade pool is a “cool concept”.

Mr Tan, who was at the park with his wife and two sons, added that he lives just a 10-minute walk away, and looks forward to patronising the cafe at the park often.

The hot spring was first discovered in 1908. During the Japanese Occupation from 1942 to 1944, the Japanese built thermal baths around the spring, and the site became recreational grounds for their officers.

In 1985, the Singapore government acquired the land for military use, with plans to expand Sembawang Air Base and cover the hot spring. Appeals by the local community saw the creation of a small concrete base with standpipes to channel the hot water in 2002.

The Sembawang Hot Spring Park is open from 7am to 7pm daily, and visitors can enter for free.

Mr Ong Ye Kung said he was grateful to the Ministry of Defence for carving out a part of Chong Pang Camp to be developed into a park, and thanked NParks for sharing and fulfiling the “unique” vision of having Singapore’s one and only hot spring park.

He added that the hot spring park is part of the wider development of Sembawang.

“There is a lot of development going on - a new MRT station, we are building Bukit Canberra community hub, we are seeing new BTO (build-to-order) projects, viaducts,” he said.

“What we want to ensure is as we develop, don’t forget to ‘sayang’ Sembawang. It is a place with history, with nature, with its own character. It’s through projects like this that we bring out the unique character of Sembawang.”

Dr Lim Wee Kiak, who had suggested in Parliament in 2016 that the area be developed into a national hot spring park, said he was “glad that the government took up the idea and developed it even better”.

He said some residents have shared with him about the hot spring water’s supposed medicinal properties, using the water when they have skin problems.

[Hoseyboh]

Good morning folks... 

[Mustank]

Wah so nice 

if sg got snow, I think we Huat Liao 

[Mustank]

Wah so nice 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/sembawang-hot-spring-park-reopens-cascading-pool-floral-walk-12232820?cid=FBcna

 

from what he says I suspect they did think of commercialising the hot spring but decided against it

Edited January 5, 2020 by Mustank

[Tohto]

On 1/1/2020 at 10:33 AM, Mustank said:

100 year history 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sembawang_Hot_Spring_Park

Read through and it mention the source maybe origin from Bukit Timah, which is so far away. With our non stop every where abd the new MRT line cut through nature reserve. Who knows one day the source is cut off half way unknowingly. 

[Hamburger]

So the soft boil eggs taste better? 

 

Lame..... Sori, I am allergic not to eggs but something else. 

 

Btw, with so many legs soaking at the same time, does it come with a filter system? 

Edited January 5, 2020 by Hamburger