there are many other nice oddities on display too...

trees+top= need for relief meaning more uphills!

and here we are finally at West coast park!

beyond the ridges lies the "Hort" part of Hort park, thats ... just before the million dollar lawn...

few of the omg! part of the trip! (while I can hear you hillwork runners go yay!)

Kent Ridge (park) itself!

despite it's proximity to Hort park, the place is only frequented only by regulars or people living around the area

the land of signboards, carparks and decommissioned tanks!

though I won't label it as a Bt Timah alternative

before arriving at...

thats all for that boring walk, our next stop will be Kent Ridge Park!

you will see this the start of the tree top canopy walk

it's like one of the mangrove trail walks, only like wayyy much higher

once upon reaching the top of the park

and poof suddenly here we are at NUS!

something tells me the trees here love to fall...

here, we get the backdoor entry to the park note its proximity to the road!

our journey sees us through more mini forests

Here we have big PUB water bottles

a walk on the upper Kent Ridges of Kent Ridge, get it?

and lizard crossings

the canopy walk is not as popular due to it being quite out of place in the connector route

sad to see Clementi woods, a shadow of it's former self

the hort in "hortpark" stands for horticulture, which derives from the Latin hortus meaning a 'garden' space... ok....

facing the sea, the place is very airy and windy

offering not only large picnic areas, but...

hurray for our west coastline being turned into a container port!

yup it kinda have characters arranged in a way, that reading it out spells the place we intend to go as well!

the park restaurant is still there and is a Japanese restaurant now

the place is a packed family outing area

alot of the road are banked really nicely, far more than those in Mt Faber

and this big open field

it's own macdonalds as well! whoa so thats where everyone's gone to!

Most people will just park their car at the free carparks here and head off the other direction towards Hortpark itself

our next destination lies beyond this path

after a short walk and we are out of that urban jungle

so as confirmed by the signboard

yup our intel and spies confirms that the right place alrite!

wonder where that leads to?

the forest walk ends at the interlinking Alexandra arch bridge

clementi woods was once a mangrove area, so there are quite alot of such varieties of swamp plants here

across the west coast highway

argh! walking through civilization (Science park I)

as with every downfall comes with something else... this one across west coast crescent

Here we are at the Heritage trail part of Kent Ridge trail (get it? neither do I!)

clementi woods is not exactly bike friendly given the large number of steps in the park, but too small to be considered a proper

with the exception of people...

ok thats all folks on the journey! glad you like the photos!

we will leave Clementi woods for now...

is that a lone signboard I spy?