Nature Trail – aka Walking Exercise

I decided to go for a nice long trek last weekend, and I had to options a couple of options to consider.

1. Visit the quaint place called “Changhi Village” which is towards the East of Singapore island, Changhi is also the broad area where the airport is located.  There is meant to be a nice food court and the village is meant to resemble the Old Singapore.  There is meant to be a nice East-Coast trail to walk along, including a nice beach!  Possibly detouring to Burgis, Bedot National Park and Bedot Rerservoir along the way.  There is also meant to be a place called “Forest Adventure” – which I will try to visit too.
2. Or go for a tour of some of the other Southern Ridge Trails and National Park in the south / south-west part of Singapore, from Harbour Front west towards Mount Faber and Hort Park, and across to Har Par Villa, which is meant to be this weird Statue and Monument Park.

I decided to save Changi Village for another day, and so chose Option 2.

So I packed my bags, took a couple bottles of water and a towel and headed off.  From Orchard Road MRT, I went down to Douby Ghout MRT interchange.  I changed to the North-East line, reaching the southern terminous at Harbour Front MRT.

I found out that there was a bus (#145) going to Henderson Wave, the first place I wanted to visit, alongeside the Mount Faber trail – which is part of the Southern Ridge.

Looking towards Henderson Wave from below

The bus arrived just underneath Henderson Wave, so I departed the bus and walked up the stairs towards the start of the bridge.

I walked along the Henderson Wave, which is the highest Pedestrian Bridge in Singapore at 36metres above Henderson Road, and then along Hilltop Walk – past a very tidy and presentable Terrace Garden.

The trail connected at one end with the Henderson Wave and the other with the Forest Walk.

Forest Walk is quite similar to the previous Treetop Canopy Walk that I enjoyed a couple of weekends back, but this Walk was not as high, but still quite enjoyable and great scenary.

This Walk then leads to Alexandra Arch – which is a walkway / bridge across Alexandra Road.  Then you arrive to Hort Park (at Kent Ridge) and towards Floral Walk.

I noticed that the Storm Clouds were building again, usually signifying a quick but heavy downpour, so rather than going along Floral Walk and Canopy Walk.  I knew that if I got caught up in the Trail there would be little chance of finding shelter quickly, so said I will skip the last bit of my trail mission for the day 🙁

There is a more complete trail from Marang Trail at Harbour Front (next to the MRT – but I didn’t find this trail – grrr!), all the way through Mount Faber, Henderson Wave, Hilltop Walk, Forest Walk, Alexandra Walk, Flora Park, Hort Park and finishing at the Canopy Walk!!  Have a look at this DIY guide to the Southern Ridges full trail.

Here’s a map of the trail to provide a quick view of the experience 🙂

Southern Ridges Trails

Anyway, I then decided to go onto my next mission – Har Par Villa… so it wasn’t all bad!  Ha! 🙂