HSBC Tree Top Walk

I've been wanting to explore this place for the longest time. And we finally did about 4 weeks ago?

Did some googling and blog reading before driving down.
If you are driving down, there's only two places you could park - MacRitchie reservoir or upper thomson(venus drive) carpark.

From MacRitchie, you'll have to cover longer distance, about 10KM - 12KM to and fro. Since i'm not in the mood for such long walk, i opt for entering via upper thomson which is easily half the distance.

Moreover, parking at upper thomson is FREEEEE!! (Super costly to park at MacRitchie 'cuz it's 2 cents per minute.)

 

I was armed with all the essentials -track shoes, water bottle, small tower, shades, bananas! All except for insect repellant but thankfully there werent any mozzies around.

I was quite afraid the monkeys will steal my bananas though! We saw a couple of monkeys roaming around the trees.

The narrow, rocky road ahead.

Thanks to the canopy, we don't need our shades :)

I've always have weak ankles since young and all those years of running doesn't seem to strengthen them. So walking on these trails for 7km is my ankles' worst nightmare.
As expected, i suffered a little twist to one of my ankles while treading on those rocks, when i was busy talking and lose focus haha.

Wr picked this off the ground and said girls will never know what this is.
It's actually live ammunition - spells ARMY.

Looks just like another something to me. Not impress and not interested haha.

Our destination, the treetop walk!

It closes at 4.45pm, so do take note if you're planning a trip there.

And of course, what goes up must come down!

Doooooooooown we goooooooooo!

Honestly, i'd rather climb up and to walk down the steps. It's very bad for the knees and mine hurts a lil when going down.
The stairs down were insanely ALOT!

Little monkey welcoming us on our way back.

It felt good to be closer to the nature, away from the concretes, our iphones (theres hardly any coverage!), the smoke, the fumes, the noise, the crowd.

We'll be back definitely, probably to conquer the longer route, or with companies!