MacRitchie HSBC Treetop Walk

While eating lunch at Bishan S-11, seeing the weather was so nice for a trek, I jio-ed Ralf to go to the HSBC Treetop Walk. I guess if you are bored at home, just like us, it's good to sometimes take a walk at MacRitchie or Bukit Timah Reserve and take in the essence of nature. Just for the information, the Treetop Walk opens Tues-Fri 0900-1700 and Sat-Sun 0830-1700. It's closed on Mondays for maintenance.


Clad in our running attire, we met at the Raffles Institute (back) bus-stop, and walked to MacRitchie. Once we entered the MacRitchie Reservoir Park, we followed the sign and started our trek towards the Treetop Walk.

On our way towards Treetop Walk, we encountered a few monitor lizards, a few squirrels and groups of monkeys. The squirrels were like damn cute, monitor lizards like damn cool but the monkeys were like intimidating. Ha. Guess reports of monkeys snatching food from people got to me a little. Not that I have food with me la.

Ok, I don't have pictures of squirrels because they were too elusive for my K770i to capture them.

Anyway, after nearly 1 hour plus of trekking 5 plus kilometers, we finally a rangers' station which is about 500m away from the start of the Treetop Walk. There are 2 water-coolers there, so everyone who goes up there can quench their thirst over there.






Arriving at the entrance of the Treetop Walk, I thought the scenery from there was not bad. Lush vegetation, clear blue sky and only the noise of nature. Tranquility!

Because the suspension bridge only allows one-way traffic, we continued moving on and continued with the trek back. Looking down at the flights of steps down, we figured it's another long trek back.

Now that we had explored into the MacRitchie area, we decided to take a look at the Jelutong Tower, to see what it exactly is that.














We climbed up the tower and thought the view from there is great too. It's probably a good spot to look at the sun-rise/set.







From the Jelutong Tower, we followed the dirt trail along the Golf Trail, along the reservoir, skirted the Singapore Island Country Club golf course and trekked back into the vegetation back to the MacRitchie Reservoir Park. The whole journey back took us probably 6 plus kilometers and we jogged about most of the time back. SHAG!

By the time we got back to the MacRitchie Reservoir Park, it was about 1815hrs. We set off at 1500hrs and ended the whole trail in 3hrs15mins. Ha. It was the most tiring experience since my NS days man.