On my list of “things to do” in Singapore, was to head out to the Rifle Range Nature Park. Mum presumed this meant that I wanted to head out to some gun range for some shooting. Certainly the Rifle Range Nature Park used to be exactly that, a rifle range, but also a quarry. Fortunately many years ago, someone decided that they wanted to reforest the area, and it’s now a stunning rain forest with boardwalks and further walking trails through out the Nature Park.
Again, we caught the train out to the Nature Park and almost the minute you stepped into the rainforest area, the sounds of the city started to ebb away and a few more steps in, you were completely engulfed by the rainforest and the city disappeared. The park has a disability friendly boardwalk, which was great for Mum, who was getting sore going up and down stairs, which took us about 1.8km’s into the rainforest. After viewing the wetland, I left Mum sitting in the shade and then headed up to a look out.
It was pretty humid and oppressive in the rainforest, so by the time I got back down from hiking up to the look out, I was sweating buckets! We stopped in a local shopping centre on the way home for a cool drink or two! It was a good time to head back to the hotel for a swim and then a wander back down to Chinatown for some more chilli crab! We had decided that it was a good idea to have chilli crab the night before we left, rather than the actual night we left…. due to the mess that we always make eating crab!
Really, our last few days in Singapore was entirely about the food (actually, as much of our time in Singapore had been about food!). We had passed a cute little Asian noodle shop called Tongue Tip Lanzhou Beef Noodles. They have a great window where you can watch the chef making the noodles (all varieties within a couple of minutes!), which mesmerised Mum for a little while! So we decided that the Chilli Crabs could be our last night’s meal (because we would need to wash up after that!) and beef noodles could be our “on our way to the airport” meal, because we weren’t likely to get as messy with beef noodles! Great plan! It also sent us off to the airport full, not so messy and tasting beef noodles until take off, very content!
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