Last Friday I saw a TV program introducing the a suspending bridge in the nature reserve called McRitchie Reservoir Park. The bridge is named as HSBC treetop walk as it is a sponsored architecture by HSBC for education and research of the nature reserve. It looks so cool. And I couldn't help but starting to plan on it.
We checked the map and found the this reserve can not a bit different from those like BT nature reservoir. BT R. is a hill - over there you can hardly call it hiking. It is larger and there are some sorts of hills to hike. When we enter the park from Leonie road, actually we came up with a big lake first. Many young students are practicing kayaking (canoe) on the lake. People looked happy and healthy here. They enjoy the sunshine and water, when we are putting on more sun protection cream (quite funny)
We started walking up through a woods. It was quite humid and windless. Reminded me that we are in the tropical area. The way to the bridge seemed to be so long as it was hot and humid and kind of boring. Not much scenery to see, only the woods. Unlike in Taiwan, you might bump up with some small river, waterfall or even the historical relics.. In around 1.5 hour walking we began to walk up to a slope and several flights of steep stairways. Thanks to that we actually used up a lot of energy (burn the fat--I hope).
We arrived at the bridge on schedule. Approx 2 hours. There is a place for a temporary rest and refilling water in front to the entrance of the HSBC Treetop walk. This is an amazing architecture. We never expect such kind of place in Singapore. The suspending bridge is said to be 27M above the ground. We could have a bird view of the city, forest and the sea. It would be even cozy if there were not so many visitors. We didn't stay on the bridge for too long as it was quite crowded. But walking on the treetop is indeed cool.
We climbed another flight of stairs after getting through the treetop walk. That was quite steep. And then came another steep slope. When we were closing the exit we found there were 2 ways out. Took the chance we chose the one on the right hand side. That in the end was proved to be a long way. It took us another 1.5 hours to walk. Well look at the bright side, we consumed more fat into energy. Just that on the way of finding exit, I really got hungry. I made a stupid choice to take out my pork floss bread. And suddenly a group of monkeys ran toward me. So panic and I threw the bread far far away... to rescue myself from being hugged by the monkeys. Never FEED the monkey... good lesson.
Amber successfully hitched a wagon and the driver drove 4 of us down to the bus stop.It was a great help as we really had no idea how far it was to go to the exit. We were told that the main road was 20 min's away and eventually we found the main road to be the highway.... We actually walked for anther 1.5 hours. It is worthy of celebrating when we see '' buss' to the city. The return is the beautiful railway next to the bus stop. It should be the railways that goes to KL.
Good exercise~ and next time we shall not choose a wrong way out :D
