Taiping has quite a few parks that are all free to visit. The Spritzer EcoPark is further from Taiping town, but we think it’s a very nice park.
Read more about what you can see and do here below!
Getting Here
You’ll need to make a turn from the main road into the park. The road leading to the park goes past a row of shop houses, and deeper into a residential area.
We presently came upon a wide well-maintained tar road with ample streetlights. There’s a security outpost along this road but no barrier.
Continuing along this road, we saw many monkeys and trees. And after making a turn to the right, we saw the visitor car park for the park. There are in fact two car parks one at the side of the visitor center, and another directly in front of it. We parked our car in front facing the Spritzer factory.
Note: No parking fees are required to use the visitor car park
Visitor Center
The visitor centre is a one-storey building that includes an educational briefing room, two shops selling Spritzer products.
If you want to get tickets to play mini golf on the course beside the building, the counter for the tickets is inside the shop on the left corner (left if you’re standing facing the visitor center). This shop has an ice cream stall, souvenirs and some toys that are suitable for playing in the park.
Behind the visitor center is an STG café branch. We didn’t go in, but it is open from morning until the evening as well.
The educational briefing room (Discovery Tunnel) is very well lit with lots of information about the company and the benefits of silicon-enriched water. They have a display case full of awards and a big timeline on the wall for important company events that occurred throughout the years. Interestingly, there’s a mini version of how they process the water at their plant.
Recreational Park
To the right side of the visitor center is a basketball court and lots of picnic table. We didn’t explore this area in depth.
On the other hand, the left side of the visitor center is where the 18-hole mini golf course is spread out. The pathway towards the course has a lot of trees and lights.
The course (like everything in this park) is well-kept. There’s no time limit for using this course – you only need to get the clubs and balls from the ticket counter in the gift shop. We decided we might come back later in the evening to try this activity after dinner (we ended up not doing so) since the course is open until 8:30pm.
We saw another group of monkeys close to the back of the course where the Cactus Rock is. A signboard to the right of the rock bears more information of its origins.
There’s a love lock fence close to the Cactus Rock. You can get the locks from the gift shop beside the park.
After checking out this part of the park, we left to explore another section. There’s a much bigger car park beside the Cactus Walk (which doesn’t have any live cacti by the way).
Our leisurely stroll took us deeper into the park. The pathways are all very broad and well maintained. There are streetlights in the shape of branches, and many tall trees along the side of the pathway. We saw a family bring scooters and other wheeled toys for their kids to play in this area. It looked really fun!
The Ancient Wood section of the park has huge black tree trunks and branches on display. Some information about these peculiar looking stumps would have been nice but we didn’t see any.
To one side of the car park, is a visitor toilet block. We were surprized at how clean these facilities were. There are even showers in the toilet cubicles! And you can use these for free too. We’ve never seen any government-owned parks with facilities that can compare to this privately owned park (much less one in a small town too).
Beside the toilet block is a small foot massage path with sturdy railings. We tried this and felt itchy afterwards from increased blood circulation in our feet!
What It’s Like In The Evening
We did come back to the park after dinner. It was 8pm by then and all the lights were on. There were even more cars in the visitor car park. We did observe that there seemed to be some sort of locally organized talk at one side of the park.
A couple of people were walking about the park too.
No one was playing mini golf, but the course (and the park) is sufficiently lit. We would have played if it wasn’t already so late (you can’t play after 8:30pm). There were quite a lot of people at STG café. It’s probably a lot livelier on the weekends as we went on a Wednesday.
Conclusion
The Spritzer EcoPark was a lot more beautiful than we expected. We will be back to try the mini golf course!
We’ve been to other parks in Taiping, and this is definitely one of our favorites!
Taiping Lake Gardens
If you only have time to see one park in Taiping, then the Taiping Lake Gardens should be your priority. These are much bigger than the Spritzer EcoPark. There are paddle boats (for a rental fee of course) that you can take out onto one of the lakes too.
Perak Botanic Gardens (Taman Botani Perak)
You must pay to enter Taman Botani Perak but there is a big lake to see here. As well as beautiful section in this park that allows you to admire the jungle while walking on a wide tarred road. It is a pity that there are entry fees and restrictions on using bicycles here.
