Activities in Singapore City
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Ananda Marga
In a world of corporate-run yoga studios, Ananda Marga is a breath of fresh air. Its Singapore studio offers small daily classes, dedicated instructors, and short-term class packages. Well worth coming east for.
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Sentosa Luge & Skyride
Imported from New Zealand, so you know it must involve reckless endangerment, the luge is an irresistible 60 seconds of racing family and friends through hairpin bends and bone-shaking straights carved through the forest. The chairlift back up offers views good enough that you don't need to pay for the Sky Tower nearby.
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ski360°
Ski360° is a daredevil cable-ski installation at East Coast Lagoon where, if you can master the launch technique, you’re dragged around the lagoon on a wakeboard by a circular cable system.
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Wild Wild Wet
Price of admission allows access to unlimited rides: go-kart, slide, ride and splash around till you’re wrinkled, sunburnt and sore.
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Urban Fairways
Billing itself as Asia's first virtual-golf centre, offering players a virtual round on the world's top courses - all in air-conditioned comfort. Popular with corporate groups.
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Central Catchment Nature Reserve
Encompassing the MacRitchie and Lower and Upper Peirce Reservoir parks, this 2000-hectare area is Singapore’s largest nature reserve. The area is criss-crossed by a series of trails, ranging from short boardwalks around the reservoirs to long treks through the forest. The most popular entry point to this precious wilderness is the MacRitchie Reservoir, a delightful, partly manicured park wrapped around the water’s edge, where you can rent a kayak, and get a bite to eat at the small hilltop food centre overlooking the water and a bizarre zigzagging pontoon bridge. It’s also the starting point for some fairly arduous forest walks.
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Pasir Ris Park
Stretching along a couple of kilometres of the northeast coast, a short walk from Pasir Ris MRT station, this peaceful place is the third-largest park in Singapore and certainly among the best. There’s a surprising variety of attractions here, including a maze garden, adventure playground and sea fishing for kids; fish ponds; bicycle, rollerblade and kayak rentals; and a pristine 5-hectare mangrove swamp, complete with boardwalks and signboards describing the ecology of the area, and a large observation tower for bird-watchers.
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Snow City
A hangar-sized deep freeze chilled to a numbing -5°C, Snow City features a slope three-storeys high and 70m long, accessed via a silvery Star Trek–style airlock. Each session gives you an hour to throw yourself at high speed down the slope on a black inner tube and throw snowballs. Two-hour ski and snowboarding lessons are available in the evenings for $55 from Snow Line, located in the same building as Snow City. Snow Line also rents jackets and other equipment.
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Marine Cove Recreation Centre
Midway along the park, near the end of Still Rd South, this outdoor leisure complex has tenpin bowling, squash, crazy golf and a large selection of restaurants, food stalls and bars, plus a McDonald’s (Singapore’s only one with a skate-through window). On the beach side of the complex there are a couple of bicycle and rollerblade rental stations and a kayak and sailboat rental place on the beach itself.
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Aramsa, Bishan Park
Aramsa has five different outlets in Bishan park, including an amazing spa, a vegetarian cafe, a huge dining room, and a Pilates studio. The serene park location makes Aramsa a scene unto itself, a place where locals and travellers alike can escape the busy mainstream and spend the day getting back to the garden of the soul.
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Sanctum
‘Nourishment for mind, body and soul’ is how Sanctum bills itself, and with tarot readings, meditation events, past-life regression, shiatsu and reiki, we see no reason to argue. Sanctum has three beautiful and uniquely set-up rooms for sessions and chilling out, and offers online booking.
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Line Dancing
Every Friday evening at 19:00, like clockwork, up go the speakers, on go the uniforms, the hats and the boots, and commuters driving along Cross St are treated to the arcane pleasures of public line dancing. If the lure is too strong, saunter up to the desk in the corner and pay around S$3 to join in.
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G-max Reverse Bungy
If you like your highs quick, intense and somewhat brutal, the G-max Reverse Bungy might be for you. You are strapped into padded chairs inside a metal cage, which is propelled skyward to a height of 60m at speeds exceeding 200km/h before being pulled back down by gravity.
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National Youth Centre Skate Park
One of Singapore's better attempts at embracing modern youth culture, the Skate Park is a fully equipped with ramps and rails where boarders and bikers practice, pose and impress watching members of the opposite sex. Occasionally, a temporary stage is set up for concerts.
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St Gregory Javana Spa
With spas all over Asia, St Gregory’s is a major player in relaxation. Its three facilities in Singapore are all inside upper-end hotels: this one at the Park Royal on Beach Rd; the other two at the Marina Mandarin and the Conrad Centennial.
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Cookery Magic
Ruqxana conducts standout Asian-cooking classes in her own home. She also conducts classes on an ecofarm (harvest your own veggies before cooking!) and on Pulau Ubin (in an old kampung home). Splash out for the hands-on classes.
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Kenko Wellness Boutique
With branches scattered throughout the city, Kenko Wellness Boutique is the McDonald’s of Singapore’s spas, but there is nothing drive-thru about its foot reflexology (30 minutes S$33).
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Farrer Park
If you’re not staying at a hotel with its own pool, there is an excellent public swimming complex at Farrer Park. Admission is $1/0.50 per adult/child ($1.30/0.60 on weekends).
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Spa Botanica
Spa Botanica was Singapore’s first indoor/outdoor spa. The signature Galaxy Steam Bath (S$95) is a 30-minute wallow in medicinal chakra mud in a specially designed steam room.
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Flying Trapeze
Set up on the beach is this flying trapeze on which children (above four) can fly through the air with the greatest of ease. Guaranteed to either cure or cause a lifelong fear of heights.
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Climb Asia
Highly professional climb centre with a challenging series of indoor walls, a realistic outdoor wall and a boulder cave. Good spot to get the lowdown on climbing spots around the region.
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Sentosa Golf Club
Boasting two lush, immaculate championship level courses, Sentosa has successfully pitched (pardon the pun) itself as one of the island's most prestigious clubs. Book well in advance.
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Villa Raintree Resort & Spa
Singapore has more spas than it knows what to do with, but few outside Sentosa can boast views like this converted clifftop colonial bungalow overlooking the Strait of Singapore.
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True Yoga
Probably the largest of Singapore’s corporate yoga centres, True Yoga offers classes in a variety of styles and levels. It often list one-time promotions on its website.
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Changi Sailing Centre
This centre rents out j-24s (24ft keel boats) on one-day charters for $180 a day, including petrol. You will need to show a sailing proficiency certificate.
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