June 19th, 2005
We decided to take a hike in Bukit Timah, that way Jeremy could show me some of the new bike trails he did with our hash friend Simon, and we could explore more stuff a little more closely without it all wizzing by so fast, like when we are on our bikes.

We used Public Transport to get us up to Bukit Timah, and like always it takes so long to get from point A to point B with bus transfers etc...that we decided that when we can, and it doesn't matter if we are all sweaty, we'll be taking our good mtn bikes from now on.

Public transportation is good, don't get me wrong. But we spend half our day on it, rather than doing what it is we came to do...so it wastes a lot of time too. We are really missing our Subarus now! We have estimated that we need to allow an hour to get anywhere to be on average, safe. And let me remind you, that all of Singapore is the size of State College! It's getting a tad frustrating at this point.

I digress, we used the public transportation to get to Bukit Timah for our hike, b/c if we lock our good bikes anywhere, they'll get stolen! So we aren't taking any chances!


Not so sweaty yet, sitting at the bus stop waiting for our bus.


We finally, after about an hour and 45 mins, get to the start of our trail. My my, looks tough doesn't it? It gets a bit more rustic, soon enough...I promise!


See, ok, now we are heading into the woods, and I am now, mosquito bait! The pace has to be quick enough that I can create a breeze to keep the buggers off of me!


We popped out of the woods and found these old BMX bike jumps and we decided to follow one of the bike trails just to see how maintained it was...there was some bushwhacking, but over all it wasn't too bad.


And near the end of the day, we came into a thick section of the woods and discovered a ton of discarded ceramic pots. We're not sure how they got here as the trail is narrow and the woods around it thick, but there were piles and stacks of pots, of all sizes. If this was back home, I would have come back with my Subaru and picked some of for myself. They were fine, just old!

And by now, it was falling a bit later in the day, so the mosquitos were getting worse for me...so, we took some pix and continued on.

The trail opened up in this different section and we kept hearing this rustling in the trees around us, and we found there were lots of monkeys in the trees, but it was too thick and they were too high to get any good pix! Sorry.



But on the ground in the middle of the trail was this butterfly, either paralized or dead, we couldn't tell, but it was in good shape, and this little green spider was deciding where to begin!

And then we began our long haul on public transport back home...

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