Today's planning was to explore Hort park. Actually a small mistake here. Actually Hort Park is just a small gardening hub near Alexandra Arch at Hyderabad road. What we want to explore is actually call Southern Ridges. Well, we did arrived outside Hort Park, just that we never went in to explore hehe. How to get here? Take bus 93 from Habour Front bus interchange, eight bus stop.
If you want to know whats Hort Park, read about it here: Hort Park. Maybe next time, Hort Park. We started our expedition at Alexandra Arch. Bright hot sunny day. just nice for some exploring and photo taking. Today my team got good old Crispy and Prata. Southern Ridges is very big, we will explore the right wing today.
Before we came, i was telling Prata how magnificent the long long bridge linking Alexandra Arch. The instant he saw it, he was rather disappointed as the bridge looks like any other ordinary bridge to him. He said too soon, read on.
The bridge is call Forest Trail which brings you an adventure on an elevated walkway through Telok Blangah Hill. To me, it looks like a high up roller coaster walkway, so many curves and turns.
It feels rather shiok to be walking high up in the sky, you can even touch the top of the rain forest. But if you try to look below and walk, think you will get soft legs like me too. Imagine if suddenly the bridge broke?
Saw a funny bird home on tree. Did anyone spotted it too? One and only one i saw through the entire forest trail.
Halfway through the forest trail, there is an option for you to descend and walk the Earth Trail. Very rugged jungle walk lol. Since Crispy don't want, we never explore that.
Walking through the whole Forest Trail was an exhausting 1hour, imagine this was only the beginning. After exiting Forest Trail, we followed the lonely highway to the next stage: Hill top walk.
Hill top means you have to climb a flight of stairs. But we got flowers to lighten our hearts at the end of the stairs. Top of the world!
Did i mentioned there was no washroom no refreshments from Forest Trail until now? After Hill top finally we reach "meeting point 1". Theres washroom, drinks vending machine and even ice-cream man lol. The ice-cream uncle business inevitably good. Queue up for the soul refreshing ice-cream, only $1.
Sunset came. We reached Henderson Waves. We need to cross this wavy looking skyline bridge to our next stage.
Henderson Waves resting area also very unique!
Right after Henderson Waves we came to Faber Walk. This is a boring up slope trail to Mount Faber Park with nothing much to explore. At the end of Faber Walk, there is the Jewel Box. Cable cars still in construction.
The time now is nearly 7pm. Sky was getting dark. The last stage was to bash through the Marang Trail from top of Mount Faber Park down all the way to Vivocity. This was the most exciting stage. Bashing through the forest without any lights after dark totally sends our hearts pumping. 3hours of road march finally came to an end.
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