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Rainbow Jungle @ Kai Tak East Park

Another playground along MTR’s Tuen Ma Line! This one is just 8 mins walk from MTR exits.

This playground is special. It is a playground filled with community engagement, involving primary students, neighbours from the hood, housing representative, repress from the leisure and culture service department and consultants from Playright Children’s Play Association. Discussions over the concept of the park, that must includes playground equipments suitable for kids with different capabilities, surroundings that would be user friendly to residents of all age, and not forgetting in greening and embellished the neighbourhood.



Finally, it’s open to public in Aug 2021.


We went on a Sunday morning. First impression - wow, this is a really small playground. There are different zones, the adventure, discovery, spinning and fitness corner not suitable for kids. My kids spent most of their time at spinning and adventure because of the hamster run, spinning swing and trampoline.

At the adventure zone, there’s a rather wide metal slide up a rubber hill with tunnels; spinning swing and trampolines. I was surprise at how K found her way to play with the spinning swing, instantly. This kind of swing is rare, we never play with anything similar, and I saw some older kids couldn’t figure it out and left the swing after a few try.

However, it irritates me when I heard parents “lecturing” on how to play. There’s no instructions in playing, we should just let them explore! K found her way, and other kids might have different ways of playing with it, and we will only find out if we let them try it out.

At the spinning zone, the roundabout/ merry-go-round is kinda popular at new playground for the past few years; there are spinning chairs for younger kids too, but what my kids absolutely love is the hamster running wheels! You need to run like a hamster and it’s not easy. Kids don’t understand how to run at first, they’d run in place before learning to use their whole body’s strength, run/crawl like a hamster with hands and legs in action. It does help with coordination and balancing.

At discovery zone, there’s a rope climber, balancing bars and logs, rubber figures and hills for younger kids to work on their core strength, coordination and muscles. I don’t remember my kids spend anytime here, they’re occupied by the other 2 zone which are age appropriate to them.

Shaded: No . There’s a small area with cover and benches, near the trampoline.
Toilet: No. You could walk to the mall at Rythm Garden Shopping Centre (采頤花園商場)
Refreshment: Closest at the shopping centre.

Mommy think: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (but it’s a really small playground, to the extent that I thought it’ll be too crowded even with just over 10 kids)
Kids think: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

How to get there:
- Tuen Ma Line and get off at Diamond Hill Station exit B, approx 8 mins walk towards your right

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