Sibu Public Park a.k.a. Taman Awam Sibu @ Taman Permai

Located adjacent to Sibu Lake Garden @ Taman Permai, the 3rd phase of the Lake Garden extension project had completed and opened to public around February this year. It was named "Sibu Public Park" or "Taman Awam Sibu" or “诗巫公共公园”. This project is the collaboration between Jabatan Landskap Negara (JLN) and Sibu Municipal Council (SMC). The major attraction for the extension works would be the children playground with large scale playground equipment.

As the color of the playground are relatively bright and outstanding compare to its surrounding, the park appears to be very eyes-catchy, thus it's quite hard to miss the place if you are driving around that area. The huge playground equipment are like a heaven to the small kids where they have so much to climb, to explore and to play with. The spiral tube slides, wave slides as well as the tube tunnels are among the favorite of the kiddies!

These large scale equipment are designed in such a way they mimicking the shape and structure of a pirate ship, sort like the structure you could find in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. The crow's nest, the sails as well as the rigging structure reminded me of the movie! I couldn't help myself to climb onto the crow's-nest-like structure to feel and enjoy a short moment of being Jack Sparrow! ^ ^

Seesaws and swings are also available at different corner of the playground.

Surrounded the playground are various fitness equipment with instruction how to use them. Among the fitness equipment available are like the balance beam, beam hop, body curl, horizontal ladder, push up bar, parallel bar and etc. While the kiddies are busy on their playground, the parents/adults can take the opportunity to do some exercises using this facilities! Isn't that great?

Worth mentioning is the attractive and brightly colored flooring are formed using EPDM (Ethylene-Propylene-Diene-Monomer), a synthetic rubber which is used in wetpour surfacing. The soft and continuous seamless finish of this surfacing technology provides a safer environment and reduces injuries especially for the kids.

I personally like the place very much especially its colorful environment which make me feel relax and cheerful! Sibu Public Park is certainly a good place for family to spend leisure!

Sibu Lake Garden @ Permai Sibu

Sibu Lake Garden is one of the few recreational park available in the town of Swan. Situated inside the housing area called Permai, Sibu Lake Garden also been known as Permai Lake Garden or Sibu Lakeside Garden.

According to a trusted source, this garden covering an area of around 130 acres and is a joint project between Sibu Municipal Council and National Landscape Department under the "Taman Awan Scheme". No detail on this scheme, maybe you can googling it! ;)

At its earlier stage, the garden only consists of lakes, fountain and nice landscape. Children love to play with water at the shallow pool while remote control enthusiasts utilized the lake facility as the venue to show off their radio controlled boat.

Recently the garden became more happening with the addition of new concrete structures which was named "Lakeside Corridor". The highlight of this corridor is a building which is conical in shape and mimic the Melanau traditional craft - Terendak hat or Melanau ethnic in some area called it as Tapou.

Beside the conical building is Lakeside Corridor restaurant.

The dining area of the restaurant which is facing the lake is a good place to dine on while enjoying the relaxing ambiance of the lake view.

In front of the dining area, there is a small section equipped with golf training facilities for golf enthusiasts to train their wood swinging skills! You may feel curious where the golf ball will be landed?! If I tell you the balls will fall into the lake, will you believe?

Yes!! That's exactly what happened!! The golfer will just let the balls to fall into the water! Luxury? But the trick is.... natural flow of the lake water will then bring all these balls back to the edge and the golfer can then scoop up the balls using the hand net or dip net.

So far I have no information if this golfing facility is open for public or just for private use. However, what is for sure is that the pedal boats are ready to be rented with charges of RM3 per head for 20 minutes of pedaling on the lake.

However, I strongly believe that whoever operate this boat pedaling business should improve the quality of the pedal boats in order to attract more people to ride on them.

There is also a boardwalk or jogging trek facilities which I didn't explore. Anyhow, I believe Sibu Lake Garden is a good recreational park for family activities during leisure and certainly worth a visit for its great relaxing ambiance and pretty landscape.