15 July 2008

Photo: The Southern Ridge

Last Sunday morning, i went to The Southern Ridge with adietcokelover. We are both members of our Company's Sports and Recreation Club (SRC), and aside from being arrowed to help out in sports events (if any), we are in-charge of organising walking / nature trips for our company.

This is going to be our 3rd trip we organised. We have already organised trips to Tree Top Walk and Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve previously.

The Southern Ridge comprises of three large hill parks - Mount Faber, Telok Blangah Hill Park and Kent Ridge Park, connected by bridges before ending at West Coast Park. The two prominent pedestrian bridges - Henderson Waves and Alexandra Arch are officially opened by PM in May 2008.


We started the walk from Marang Road, just behind the Harbourfront MRT Station to the cable car station at the Jewel Box on Mount Faber. The walk is considered a bit of challenge as we've to climb up a fair number of steps up to reach Mount Faber.

However it's worthwhile as we are able to have a paranormal view of the Southern part of Singapore.


We continued to Henderson Waves, Singapore's highest pedestrian bridge (height of 36m), which connects Mt Faber Park to Telok Blangah Hill Park. Following are some of the pictures I took during the walk:



As you can see we saw a monkey! And it's not the only one that can be found... haha so don't carry too much food in your bag!
Oh isn't the boy cute too? I discover it's not the 1st time I secretly take photos of cute boys.. hee

Then we walked through the Forest Walk on elevated walkways before reaching the Alexandra Arch.





At night, the Alexandra Arch
bridge will dazzle with colour-changing LED lights.


We ended our 1.5 hrs walk at HortPark – the gardening hub. This is S.E.A first one-stop centre for gardening-related recreational, educational, research and retail activities in a park setting.
As for West Coast Park, I guess it will have to wait! Cos we two are in a lazy mood... haha


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

As usual, I love your pics. Jio me for some photo-taking sessions lah, my NIKON baby is screaming for some attention... have been neglecting it for too long :p

Anonymous said...

Thanks dear for liking my pics.
Yes, of course will love to go phototaking with you. We can choose a sun in Aug? Can jio more people too. More fun that way.

I dun mind going back Southern Ridge cos I missed Telok Blangah Hill Park that day. Or we can go to Nparks website for more ideas? I dun mind offshore isles too! =)