I find myself high above the jungle, literally looking down on treetops and other vegetation, the breeze in my hair and puffy clouds above. My equilibrium is a bit out of whack because, frankly, my body isn’t quite adjusted to floating so freely this far off the ground. Now and again we all dream about flying. But this is the real deal. Or at least as close as you can get without sprouting actual wings. Yet another way that Singapore has managed to transform the everyday into the extraordinary.

It’s called the HSBC TreeTop Walk, one of the island’s most spectacular and unexpected attractions. A 11⁄2-mile pedestrian bridge across a wooded canyon in the heart of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve.

But the freaky thing about this bridge—the thing that really sets it apart from elevated boardwalks through the forest—is the fact that it moves. Suspended by cables from a pair of towers and anchors in the area’s two highest bluffs, the steel span verily bobs and sways as you walk along—enough to make your stomach flutter and your heart beat just a tad bit faster.