Putrajaya-Garden City and Intelligent City.! That's the catch phrase that epitomises what Putrajaya stands for!
Putrajaya was designed to incorporate 12parks, namely as follows:
1) Putra Perdana Park - 1st park that was opened
2) Botany Park
3) Taman Pertanian Warisan - Agricultural Heritage Park
4) Taman Wawasan - Vision Park
5) Taman Wetlands - Wetlands Park
6) Taman Rimba Alam - Forestry Park
7) Taman Selatan - South Park
And the latest park schedule for opening in Jun 2009 is the Putrajaya Challenge Park.
Located in the southern part at Precinct 5 and 30, it covers a total area of 46.73 ha in the South Park.
A Park meant for extreme sports, possibly the largest in South East Asia, it incorporates three key elements designed to give extreme thrill and excitement. Costing RM38mil, the extreme sports comprises a Wall Climbing Complex, Skate Park and a Bike Trail.
During the construction, every effort is being take to preserve the park's topography. Slope disturbance is kept to a minimum, with landscaping done along the natural contours so that sports enthusiasts can appreciate the flora and fauna while enjoying their sports.
Recreational sports like jogging and walking are also available.
Facilities within the park includes warm-up rooms, changing rooms, administrative block, cafeteria,kitcen area, a surau and parking bays.
WALL CLIMBING COMPLEX
At the height of 2100 sq m, it is a colourful trapezional climbing wall stretching 42m wide, 42m long and 20m high. Its divided into beginners' wall, competition wall, speed wall , advance wal and boulder, all to cater to both the novice and experienced climbers.
The competition wall is said to be the highest in the world. Climbing equipment will be available for rental.
A special kiddie wall is also contructed for kids to experience the thrill of wall climbing.
SKATE PARK
With a size of 2.600 sq metre, Skate Park is designed for skating activities with numerous bowl steps, railings and mini-vert ramps.
THE BIKE TRAIL
Consist of two components,
1) Free Ride Park
2) Fun Bike Park
Free Ride Park offers a 9.1 km trail for mounain biking with obstacles like the core trail loop, XCloop, downhill, downhill fun ride, free cross and slope style line.
It is built within the jungle setting with natural canopies for shade.
The Fun Bike Park is suitable for pump track biking, dirt jumps with north shore element and slope-style jumps.
The Ridgeline Park or natural metropolitan park is built within the Challenge Park to offer basic facilities such as look out tower, gazebo, platforms and foottrails.
Ref: The star Metro Mar 17 2009
