It has already become my routine every Friday’s evening to head to Singapore Sports Hub for cycling…or to be exact, to polish my cycling skill. I am still far from being a confident cyclist and hopefully in less than a month, I will be much better in controlling my ride. In fact, I even fell down once yesterday during a ride when I tried to control riding through a path with obstructions. Hope no one sees that…haha.
My ride didn’t just stop around the Sports Hub area last evening. I took the initiative to ride all the way to Bay East Garden yesterday. I was doing fine as the path is wide and there weren’t too many people as it was already quite late in the evening. Most importantly, I manage to get some fantastic views of the Sports Hub from Tanjong Rhu Promenade and the entire Marina Bay from along the waterfront of the Bay East Garden. You can view the entire Singapore city skyline from here including some famous landmarks like Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Flyer and the Gardens by the Bay’s conservatories. Both of my legs were pretty sore last night as it was the first time I rode this far (about 10km).
I went to Sentosa Island today particularly to visit the Fort Siloso, a military museum in the form of a park at the west end of the island. I had been to this place several years ago with a friend but we didn’t manage to tour the entire place and were very rushed as our visit was near the closing time. Hence, this visit is to ‘complete’ the tour and to reminisce the past. The main highlight of the place is the Fort Siloso Skywalk which offers spectacular views of the island and its beaches, cable car, architecturally-intriguing apartment complex named Reflections at Keppel Bay that appear like dancing towers, Tanjong Pagar Port and Singapore CBD from afar.
After touring the Fort Siloso, I continued my walk to the beaches located on the west side of the island. I then went over to the Resorts World Sentosa area where the casino, Universal Studios theme park and SEA Aquarium are located. Didn’t enter any of those places though; just a quick walk around while snapping some interesting shots will do. As it is no longer free to take the Sentosa Express monorail to travel to Sentosa Island from Vivocity shopping mall, I chose to cross over via walking through the Sentosa Boardwalk including the return trip.
That’s it. I don’t think my legs can take it anymore with all the walking today and cycling yesterday. Haha…The weather also isn’t pleasant (being way too hot nowadays). Will just stay at home mostly for Sunday tomorrow for a rest (my legs will surely thank me!). By the way, I’m off for an impromptu trip next week! It was a sudden oversea trip thought of just two days ago and then I have decided to go for it. Hope everything will be smooth. More on that in my next blog post about the trip when I return.
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