An afternoon stroll 🚶‍♂️

Heading in the opposite direction today towards Fort Canning Park. It appears to be a country park with huge heritage and majestic trees. It is also home to a hotel, military barracks, spice garden, and what I have come to see the Colonial Monuments. Walking through the park you come to the first of 2 Fort Gates, carry on up the hill you come to the last remnants of the colonial hilltop fort; complete with WWII Bunker, former Christian cemetery and British army barracks.
The WWII bunker, known as the Battle Box, is strategically placed and well hidden in the grassy hill and foliage off the park. Starting in 1936, it took 3 years to build and was the stronghold that the Allied Forces monitored and tried to stem the advancing Japanese army in the final days of the Malayan campaign. It was also here that the decision was taken to surrender to Japan, becoming the greatest military defeat of the British army and the beginning 3 1/2 years of Japanese occupation in Singapore.
Continuing on from Fort Canning Park, I walked in the direction of the Raffles Hotel to ask if the Courtyard was covered as it was raining. There is some covering, and yes, you may get a little wet if it is raining and windy. I left deciding discretion is the better form of valour and decided not to tell Jayne!!!
From Raffles Hotel it wasn't far to the river and an opportunity to hopefully get better photographs of the Merlion; a mythical creature with a lion's head and the body of a fish that is widely used as a mascot and national personification of Singapore.
As time was now getting on and we were going out for dinner tonight, I decided to head back to the hotel and Jayne. Searching for the nearest RMT stop, I was surprised to see recognizable street sounds and realised I was just minutes from the hotel.Leggi altro