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We visited & went for a good walk through Mc Ritchie reservoir today. It's a part of the last remaining forest in the centre of singapore. It's actually never so 'remote' since you have a bunch of people enjoying the outdoors & there are military trainings all over the place (the 'troops' more looked like boy scouts tripping in the woods) although we did hear a fair amount of tnt being blasted around in some part of the forest so some of it is maybe serious ;-) Still have some doubts about that since according to all the singaporean men we talked to, the most find the idea of forced service a pain-in-the-ass & the 2y!! service is nothing more than boyscouts out for picnic. Probably it's all somewhere in the middle...
For the rest the route included a nice treetop walkway from which we had a good view over the forest up north almost all the way to malaysia, a couple of monkeys. 1 wrong turn later (which showed us a nice military gate making us track back) we got a lift from a local passing by to the bus station in the end. We also needed & got some help (from very nice lady, mary ong *note to self: send her a postcard when we are back home) to get the right bus to reach it in the first place. Once of the bike we are so damn helpless :-) Like fish on dry land.
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We visited & went for a good walk through Mc Ritchie reservoir today. It's a part of the last remaining forest in the centre of singapore. It's actually never so 'remote' since you have a bunch of people enjoying the outdoors & there are military trainings all over the place (the 'troops' more looked like boy scouts tripping in the woods) although we did hear a fair amount of tnt being blasted around in some part of the forest so some of it is maybe serious ;-) Still have some doubts about that since according to all the singaporean men we talked to, the most find the idea of forced service a pain-in-the-ass & the 2y!! service is nothing more than boyscouts out for picnic. Probably it's all somewhere in the middle...For the rest the route included a nice treetop walkway from which we had a good view over the forest up north almost all the way to malaysia, a couple of monkeys. 1 wrong turn later (which showed us a nice military gate making us track back) we got a lift from a local passing by to the bus station in the end. We also needed & got some help (from very nice lady, mary ong *note to self: send her a postcard when we are back home) to get the right bus to reach it in the first place. Once of the bike we are so damn helpless :-) Like fish on dry land.
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