Walking on clouds

Singapore was once entirely covered in tropical rain forest. Nowadays, all that remains is a relatively small patch in the center of the island, which was turned into two reserves/natural parks: the MacRitchie Reservoir and the Bukit Timah Reserve. The former has a lot of walking trails you can take, although the secret is to arrive very early in the morning, to be done with your hike before the heat gets really, really bad. We arrived at 9am to walk though the most famous of the trails: the Treetop Walk. For the most part it's a sweaty hike through the jungle, but you get to walk for about 10 minutes on a suspension bridge that connects the two highest points in the reservoir, for a view of the canopies and, with luck, a few animals. And even though we were done by 11am, I can't begin to tell you how drenched we were when we got out. Perhaps next time we ought to start at 7:30.