I named my blog
Ingtraveling because I use it to post stories and photos when I travel. But I surprised myself just now when I went to update it and saw that my last post was from Singapore in 2013. Here I am in Singapore again, and it is 2014! This time we are staying 7 months, not 7 weeks but that is okay, there is lots to like here and still more to discover.
We arrived on Friday, June 13th and after settling into our apartment and Bill into his office, we had a weekend to acclimatize. We live very close to West Coast Park which is actually a beautiful 3-mile long greenbelt sandwiched between the container port (one of the busiest in the world) and a major east-west highway of the island.
The park is green and clean and flows organically into each of 10 or so areas such as mangrove marsh, jogging path, camping zone, exercise zones with outdoor equipment, adventure playground, picnic tables, bird lake, and much more. Most of the time it feels like you are walking along a path in a garden of immense and exotic trees; they have been deliberately planned and planted to make you forget that you are actually pinned between shipping port and super highway. You almost do forget, but you need to push out of your ears the ever present background noise.
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| Little fishing boats share port with huge container ships. |
On one side is the highway overpass, with a road down below too…
and here is the other side of the greenway, you can see the shipping containers stacked waiting to load.
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Exotic 'cannon ball tree'
(notice shipping containers behind) |
