Category: Long walks (10-15km)
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Beauty World, Toh Yi, Eng Kong, Cheng Soon, and environs
I’ll be honest: 2023 wasn’t a great year for walking for me. I’m not entirely sure why. I just didn’t go for anywhere near as many walks as I did previous years. New hobbies, new priorities, that take up time on the weekend, perhaps. Which is not to say I didn’t go walking at all.…
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Geocaching in Tampines
Something I enjoy doing other than going for long walks is geocaching. I’ve mentioned it at least twice, in a couple of other posts. Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity played the world over, in which some participants hide containers, or “geocaches”, in publicly accessible places, and other participants look for them, with the help…
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Serangoon Garden
So I’d had my eye on a walk in Serangoon Garden for some time now. The landed housing estate wasn’t too far from where I lived, so it mades for a convenient walk. That and, after my walk in Braddell Heights earlier in February, I found I wasn’t quite done with Serangoon. I decided it…
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North East Line from Farrer Park to Sengkang
The weather in January was pretty unpredictable, and so once again I must pull from my backlog. In December last year, I went for a walk along the North East Line (NEL), from Farrer Park to Sengkang. To be honest. I wasn’t sure I wanted to write about this walk, for two reasons: I didn’t…
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Bukit Batok: Fuji hill, Skypeak, Skyline, and Brickworks
Back when I was serving my National Service, I used to pass through Bukit Batok Central every day, catching my bus into camp. In the years since, though, I have hardly ever gone back. I can’t say I’m overly familiar with the place. During the final week of last year, though, I decided it was…