Bukit Timah to MacRitchie

Today we followed a less-heavily traveled trail starting at the Bukit Timah visitor center and hiking eastward first along the Kampong Trail, then along Rifle Range Road, and finally across the northern side of MacRitchie Reservoir to end at the Venus parking lot. We found a convenient bus (151) to take us directly from the NUS campus to Ngee Ann Polytechnic, within a mile of our starting point. On the return, the 165 bus carried us from Upper Thomson Road back to Commonwealth near Clementi, about 1.5 miles from our apartment. The first five photos are from the Kampong Trail, which is the wildest we've seen in Singapore. The highlight for wildness was a major tree crash impassably blocking our trail, as hinted at in the fifth photo. We had to do a bypass that involved bushwhacking through the jungle (where's my machete!) We encountered a major band of monkeys on Rifle Range Road (with cute suckling babies). It also rained a bit and the trails were muddy, as the sixth photo shows. I like the blend of being able to visit city highlights on one day and then turn around and get into the jungle on the next. All within a half hour's bus ride from our apartment!