Mount Faber + Henderson Waves

Bcos Daddy Lim had to work on Sunday, we made our own plans. 

Lil Shauna has finally finished her end of year exams. She has no paper on Friday and need not go to school. It is marking day on Monday and Tuesday and she had exclaimed countless times how fantastic it is to have a super long weekend and NO homework. She has all sorts of ideas on what to do over the long weekend and hiking was one of them. Let's go!

We had wanted to do the Treetop walk but the weather forecast said that thunderstorms were to be expected in the late morning. Late morning is supposed to be what time ah? Playing it safe, we decided to switch venue to Mount Faber. We reckoned that it would be easier to escape the storm at Mount Faber than in the midst of the reserve area. 

To avoid the rain (and the sun), the kids were dragged off bed as early at 6am. Fortunately nobody complain. We got a grab and arrived slightly before 7am. We had planned to be earlier only to have the 1st gojek canceled on us and the 2nd grab taking forever to come. Nevertheless, the weather was great and we were off for a great start. 

The last (and 1st) time we attempted the trail in 2017 with Boo and Pop, the kids were so much tinier then. The walk started with Marang trail that is basically flights of stairs up and up and up to Mount Faber. I thought it wasn't too bad and in fact better than the Treetop walk.

Right at the top!

Hello Sunrise!

That is like the only ascend and the rest of the walk was downhill. Easy peasy. As we walked, we reminisced about our last hike. The kids remembered parts of the last hike; it was like a memory lane walk. 

I had remembered that it took a long time to reach the Henderson Waves. I must have remembered wrongly. Shortly, we were there. 

I am not sure if this is still part of the Henderson Waves, the zip zag bridges. 

At the end of it, it is already the Hort Park. We are done? I was contemplating to trick the kids to continue another segment of hike to Kent Ridge but the tummies were protesting. We ended up with MacD bfast at the ARC instead. 

That marked the end of the hike. It is so much easier than I remembered it to be. The kids are so much bigger now and with longer legs, this hike feels like nothing. Let's attempt the next one soon. Hoho.

Mummy Lim