Fort Canning Park

I wander out this morning to Fort Canning Park this site became known as Government Hill as it was where the British raised the Union Jack when they arrived in 1819 and where British governors resided. The hill's summit once housed a flagstaff that guided ships to Singapore's harbour. To guard the growing port, a fort was built on the hill in 1859 The fort was later replaced by a complex of buildings and underground bunkers which served as the nerve centre for British military operations in the Far East during the Second World War. The park is beautiful and an amazing oasis to the hustle and skyscrapers that sit below the canopy of the trees. Some of the signs in the park shock me with they're bluntness but I observe the warnings as I certainly don't want to suffer the consequences. The park houses various areas and the huge government building is now a huge high end hotel. From nowhere the sky turns black and I head back to the hotel to take cover. I walk pretty much everywhere here, and not because the metro is expensive but you see so much more on two feet. Luckily most of the buildings have roof canopies so most of the journey home I stay reasonably dry apart from crossing roads. There is no jay walking allowed here so you have to wait for the green man before you can cross, which sometimes seems to take forever.Lue lisää