Today we’re continuing our journey across Singapore as part of the coast-to-coast trail. If you need to catch up, check out checkpoint 1 here (featuring Jurong Lake Gardens) and checkpoint 2 here (Bukit Batok Nature Park). But I’ll be honest with you, friend, checkpoint 3 is for the die-hard fans only. If you’re here looking…
Singapore’s coast-to-coast trail is a 36km route from (almost) one side of Singapore to another. Today we’re covering checkpoint 2, the 2km from Bukit Batok Nature Park to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. If you missed the start of the journey, catch up here! Bukit Batok Nature Park Checkpoint 2 of the coast-to-coast trail is right…
The most beautiful street in Singapore is Koon Seng Road. Beauty is subjective of course. One person’s Mona Lisa is another person’s steaming pile of hot garbage. One person’s steaming pile of hot garbage is another person’s Mona Lisa. But let’s be real here. The Peranakan shophouse above is beautiful. It’s colourful, it’s ornate, it…
Singapore is a country filled with lots of hiking trails, from the highest point at the top of Bukit Timah Hill, to the Southern Ridges, to the wetlands in the north, and lots more I haven’t explored yet. But the Coast-to-Coast trail ratchets the difficulty up a notch, combining multiple parts of many hiking routes…
No one wants to visit Brunei, and I mean that almost literally. It’s one of the world’s least visited countries. But it’s been very close to the top of my list to visit for a while now, first as a joke and now as a legitimate “as soon as I can, I’m gosh darn well…
This is your simple guide to the Southern Ridges, one of the most popular hiking routes in Singapore. Covering Mount Faber Park, Telok Blangah Hill Park, HortPark, and Kent Ridge Park via a series of elaborate trails, bridges, and connectors, the Southern Ridges is an incredible example of how even a densely-populated city like Singapore…
Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve in the very northwest of Singapore really puts the wild in wildlife. Crocodiles, mudskippers, monitor lizards, and, err, onions, this part of Singapore is one of the best escapes into nature you can get without leaving the country. My phone didn’t agree with that last part. After I’d taken a bus…
It was a trek for the ages, destined to be remembered by historians for generations to come. I speak, of course, of the epic journey of hiking to the highest point in Singapore. Let me tell you, friends, it was a thoroughly taxing 30 minutes. The highest point in Singapore is Bukit Timah Hill, which…
For my birthday, my better half took me to a surprise dinner where she didn’t have to look at me. This is our unforgettable dining in the dark review in Singapore. We went to NOX – Dine in the Dark, which in case you can’t tell from the name, is an experience where you dine…
We just moved into our new condo apartment in Singapore. Now we’re in comparable spaces, let’s look at New York City vs Singapore apartments. Hint: we upgraded in almost every way. First, let me explain what we’re comparing. In Singapore, we’re in a one-bedroom on the 5th floor of a condo in the Bukit Timah…