1st day in year 2009

I have been saying for a thousand times that I want to go for a walk at the nature reserve. Finally on new year day, I went for my 1st 11km ( or more ) walk in the MacRitchie Trails. I can't remember when was my last visit to MacRitchie, the blue colour pavilion looks familiar. ZH last visit was 19 years ago, he came for his cross country run.

Our destination is the tree top walk. Unfortunately I deleted most of the pictures by mistake, arghh..... We walked through the forest surrounded by gigantic trees. The track is rocky and there are lots of up and down slopes. Of course you can opt for the wooden platform, walk along the reservoir, this is much easier and not as tiring. There are 6 different routes, distance range from 3km to 11km. You can choose the route that suits you. 

On the way, we saw many joggers who greeted us with a smile and some even wished us "Happy New Year". Imagine them sweating and panting like mad , at the sametime still have energy to wish us "Happy New Year". Its really not easy walking 12km, especially for people who seldom exercise like the 2 of us. After we reached tree top, we felt like giving up but got no choice, got to continue walking. We also visited the Jelutong Tower but were too tired to go to the top. The tree top walk is a 250 m long suspension walkway between the 2 highest point in MacRitchie. Its quite scary looking down from the top. On the way we saw many long tailed macaques. Many signboards are seen along the trails to remind people not to feed the monkeys. There are lots of insects in the forest so applying insect repellant is a must. We took 3 hours ( from 8am to 11am) to complete the journey. At the end of the journey, we were starving. We immediately rushed to the prata shop at Bukit Timah to fill our stomach. 

Its a great start to year 2009, hopefully we will continue to exercise regularly......