The weekend brought with it a trip to the MacRitchie Reservoir.
Well the weekend genuinely started on Fri eve with drinks at an amazing rooftop bar. The bar is called 1-Altitude too is on the function past times of the OUB Building inward Raffles Place inward the pump of the Central Business District. The views were fantastic too I'd sure as shooting recommend a see to the bar exactly for that though it is a dainty identify with a rattling chilled out ambiance. From the function past times of the edifice you lot tin look out across the marina too reckon all the cargo ships out inward the ocean too dorsum into the urban heart with all the buildings alight far below you lot - fantastic!
As it was approaching Halloween the bar staff were appropriately dressed every bit zombies, ghouls too and then on and the bar was decorated too. Being from the U.K. though Halloween inward the warm does seem a flake foreign but Singaporeans seem to accept embraced it completely every bit everywhere I've been lately has been getting into the 'spirit' of the occasion.
However dorsum to our trip to the reservoir. The reservoir is an chance to sense at kickoff paw what I imagine Singapore would accept been similar earlier it became the developed landscape nosotros know today. I tin officially nation that it is the closest to a jungle that I've always been too.
The reservoir seemed huge every bit did the surrounding tropical forest. There are a seat out of paths you lot tin follow too although many of them accept wooden boardwalks to walk on (as you lot tin reckon inward the motion painting above) several also create rely on you lot beingness able to negotiate your means some tree roots too stones etc. too are much to a greater extent than natural inward appearance.
We genuinely followed a gear upwards walk which inward full was 12km, nosotros completed 7km of it every bit at that topographic point was a convenient indicate at which you lot could shorten your walk. I accept to last honest though past times that indicate 7km inward the rut too humidity seemed similar a rattling long means too I was to a greater extent than than cook to telephone phone it a day. However a provide see to walk some the other business office is definitely inward order.
Our walk also included a walk with the tree tops, this was genuinely a walk across a gratis standing 25 metre high, 250 metre long pause bridge. The views were fantastic although the span did move a fair bit so I wasn't totally deplorable to accomplish the other side of the bridge. The photograph below shows our tree top view. Some what ironically exactly afterward nosotros reached the other side nosotros encountered i of Singapore's famous downpours. We were able to shelter until it eased upwards but it seemed meant to last every bit nosotros were afterward all inward a tropical forest.
The wood also has an abundance of wild fauna too nosotros were fortunate plenty to reckon a menage unit of measurement of macaque monkeys. They allow us larn relatively unopen to them to larn some lovely photos. We also saw some lizards too lots of butterflies. There must also accept been a fair part of mosquitoes etc. every bit my legs had been bitten a few times past times the fourth dimension nosotros got home. I get together at that topographic point are also monitor lizards at that topographic point but nosotros didn't reckon whatever of those. However I've seen plenty inward Bangkok too hither inward Singapore every bit good too then I wasn't also bothered.
Overall though I had a genuinely lovely twenty-four hours too it is definitely somewhere I'd similar to provide to. If entirely to goal the other business office of the walk!