Hiking on Singapore Coast to Coast Trail

We celebrated lunar new year of Tiger (February 1, 2022) ahead of time with our fellow expatriate friends by hiking on the famed coast to coast trail of Singapore.

The Coast-to-Coast Trail is a 36 km trail that spans across Singapore, linking up nature areas, parks and park connectors from Jurong Lake Gardens in the west, to the  Coney Island in the northeast.

Due to the long distance, a good portion of the trail is actually the park connector network (PCN), i.e. the streets. To avoid day time heat and high UV, most people hike the trail during the night. That's what we did.

There are signs along the trail, they are also served as check points, to allow hikers to check that they are still on the right track. Some check points were hard to find or missing due to construction at some sections.

The five of us  meet at Lakeside MRT near Jurong lake garden @8:30pm,  Saturday, January 29, 2022 to start the long distance hike. In the dark of night, the temperature was quite tolerable, and actually pleasant from Singapore standard. We were walking and chatting in a robust pace, and enjoyed the company of each other.

We also enjoyed night scenes along the trail.

Unfortunately we made a wrong turn between checking point 2 and 3 without knowing it, and added 4 km for us to get back to the right track. We paid special attention to signs afterwards.

check point 8

Our legs became heavier and heavier after 20km continuous walking, around  ~ 1am to 2am of Sunday January 30, 2022. One person felt extremely sleepy, another had to take pain killer to suppress muscle  and knee pains . We slowed down, and took regular breaks from then on, quite a few stops at bus stations.

one major break

Despite the issues we had,  we made it to the end at Coney Island @7am Sunday, check point 9, right outside the west gate to Conny island. We walked 40 km instead of the official 36 km due to detour from the wrong turn. We rested at the gate to Coney island for a a while. Lily and I went into Coney island to see Sunrise, the rest of the group left for home. 

The Sun was rising above cloud in the eastern sky when we got to the east bank of Coney island, the timing was perfect!

The blue dashed line is the right track