How to get there:
This hill may be visited if you have a long wait for a connecting flight in the
Singapore airport. You should allow about 4 hours.
Locate the metro station very close to Terminal 2, it is inside the structure when heading from
Terminal 2 towards Terminal 1. Take the train 1 stop to a station named Expo. Change train here
and take the train that is signed for Bukit. This is essentially the entire line, many stops, this
metro trip takes about one hour. Exit the metro and proceed in the same direction as you travelled,
crossing a busy (4 lane) road using an overpass. Shortly, more along this road (now with the road on
your left), you will locate the entrance to the park going right. There is a parking area here.
This location is N01.34762, E103.77648, elevation near 35 meter.
Route:
At the end of this (rectangular) parking area, find a road (closed to traffic) that heads directly
uphill. Follow this road, near the top you may take some stairs that forks right and provide a short-cut
to the official summit. If you just follow the road, you will get to a local col between two summit
points. Here, the road curves around right in order to get to the official highpoint. There is another
road forking left. This road eventually descends, but before that you have a small summit point on
your left side. This summit is a short bushwack, there is no easy way to know which is the highest
peak, but hopefully, the Singapore park authority has placed the summit at the right location.
Comments:
My flight from Frankfurt arrived around 0700, the connecting flight left at 1230. However, I needed to
collect my baggage, then recheck it in terminal 2, having arrived in terminal 1. Still, the time seemed more
than adequate, I also knew that my friends Rob and Deividas were already on their way, having arrived before me
on a flight from London.
To add some extra margin of safety, I decided to take a taxi. This worked well and I headed up the
park road shortly before 0900. I first went to the bush summit, then crossed over to the
official summit.
I was back down by the trailhead at 0930, but now needed to figure out how to travel back
to the airport. No taxis to be seen anywhere. I asked a pedestrian about the location of the metro,
she told me - very helpful indeed. Still, time had been running and once on board the metro heading
for Expo, I realized that I only had the time needed.
