I woke up to my phone ringing and got a call telling me that my friend is down here and if I was free to meet up with him. Immediately I said yes because this is a friend (Elroi) I have not been able to spend time with for years. Excited as I was, I had to make sure I had everyting ready and off I was to meet him and his family.

So as we were eating breakfast, I asked him about his plans for the day and he said he had none. Then I offered to take him around. Very clever of me since I have no idea where to go or how to go around haha. Oh well, I was all ready to have an adventure around and so was he, so lets go!

After settling some things, we proceeded to our first destination. Chinatown. Here we walked around while he took loads of pictures. He loves photography and therefore brought a nice camera along in which the pictures in this post all belongs to him.

First stop Chinatown

Man that was painting and doing chinese caligraphy

View of Chinatown

View from Chinatown overhead bridge

Soon Elroi and me would have to part ways with his parents as they had a separate appointment and we were heading to the Southern Ledges. I heard of it from a friend and thanks to technology, I managed to find how to get there with my tablet PC. Our mode of transport will definately be the MRT since it was cheap and easy.

We were headed to Harbourfront MRT station and from there we were going to find our way to Mount Faber which is a hill for your information as Singapore has no mountains hahaha. We were all ready to go but I realised I was not geared for it. I had my notebook and backpack and wearing casual shoes. I didn’t care because travelling back would be a silly waste of time.

We arrived at Habourfront and so I looked at the map…..Mount Faber looks quite far….but as soon as we set foot on the ground floor we saw a sign pointing towards Mount Faber. Looking at the map near the sign we were certain we were on the right track.

This was called Marang Trail

Yes as you can see their trail is all made of tar….so unreal hahaha. We started of fast but soon realised we were panting for breathe and the trail is not as short as it seemed. As we struggled on I was on a mission! A mission to find wildlife in Singapore. Honestly the most common living things I see besides humans are cockcroaches here. Really sad. So I wanted to see maybe monkeys, or squirrels….but they were nowhere to be found. Strange….well we finally reached the top panting and sweating and all I could think of was finding a shop to buy a drink.

View from the Top

We could also see the port but it was very hazy

We could also see the cable car running over to Sentosa Island

This is Singapore City, some call it the concrete Jungle

We walked on around the park and just enjoyed things around even though as you can see from the pictures, the view was rather hazy. Around the park though there were many trees and plants that were well upkept. So Elroi was enjoying taking pictures while this old man sat down to catch his breath. Actually both of us were the same age but well I was carrying the bag you see….excuses hehehe. I found a place selling drinks and man did they cut our throats. SGD 3.80 a bottle of Gatorade. Tourists sites always are crazy in terms of pricing. Like it or not I am a tourist in a certain sense. I was so thirsty so I didn’t care. But Elroi paid….so nice….ahhhhh feels better now

Catching my Breath

Flowers…obviously

Beautiful Fir Tree

Now this park is connected to another and then to another of a total distance of 6km…..and we were determined to walk through the whole long connection which is named the Southern Ridges……pretty daring of a super unfit guy like me hahaha.

To be continued……….

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