Along East Coast Park
The bright and sunny Sunday morning of June brought us to the Walk that was held along the Tanjong Rhu Promenade running alongside the Marina reservoir.
When we reached the meeting point, we were greeted by enthusiastic cheers emanating from a game of cricket that was being played in the meadow alongside the river. Once we finished our warm-up exercises, we began walking towards the Marina Barrage. The reservoir is popular place for rowing enthusiasts and we could see a number of youngsters rowing with great energy. This sport requires a great deal of co-operation between the team members to keep up a steady pace throughout the length of the river. All through the walk, we marvelled at the strength and the zeal that the rowers showed while keeping a steady pace.
The promenade overlooks the river on one side and on the other side is the Marina Bay golf course dotted with gardens with pretty lakes & flowering shrubs. We could get a good view of the construction site of the new Singapore Stadium, Suntec City, and the Supertrees of the Gardens by the Bay. Our group kept a good pace and reached Marina Barrage in a matter of 45 minutes. With time on our hands, we decided to be a little more adventurous and instead of retracing our steps, we moved on to see where the road led to.
We walked alongside the Marina Bay sands and ended up at the helix bridge. The Helix bridge took us along the architectural marvels in Singapore like the floating platform, The Esplande, the Marina Bay Sands, the Olympic Youth Park and finally the Singapore flyer. From the flyer we walked along the Marina Promenade and while we could see our starting point on the opposite side, we realised that getting there by foot would take us longer than we anticipated.
For the first time, in the history of our walks we combined our walk with a short MRT ride on the circle line from Nicoll Highway to the Stadium station. This was the first time I rode the circle line in this route and I was awestruck with life-like posters of sportsmen displayed, that befitted the theme and purpose of the Stadium station.
Once there, we split up to Vrunda and Anand Patel’s residence for meditation followed by a sumptuous brunch that was enjoyed by all of us and charged us up after the long but satisfying walk.
- Swati
The bright and sunny Sunday morning of June brought us to the Walk that was held along the Tanjong Rhu Promenade running alongside the Marina reservoir.
When we reached the meeting point, we were greeted by enthusiastic cheers emanating from a game of cricket that was being played in the meadow alongside the river. Once we finished our warm-up exercises, we began walking towards the Marina Barrage. The reservoir is popular place for rowing enthusiasts and we could see a number of youngsters rowing with great energy. This sport requires a great deal of co-operation between the team members to keep up a steady pace throughout the length of the river. All through the walk, we marvelled at the strength and the zeal that the rowers showed while keeping a steady pace.
The promenade overlooks the river on one side and on the other side is the Marina Bay golf course dotted with gardens with pretty lakes & flowering shrubs. We could get a good view of the construction site of the new Singapore Stadium, Suntec City, and the Supertrees of the Gardens by the Bay. Our group kept a good pace and reached Marina Barrage in a matter of 45 minutes. With time on our hands, we decided to be a little more adventurous and instead of retracing our steps, we moved on to see where the road led to.
We walked alongside the Marina Bay sands and ended up at the helix bridge. The Helix bridge took us along the architectural marvels in Singapore like the floating platform, The Esplande, the Marina Bay Sands, the Olympic Youth Park and finally the Singapore flyer. From the flyer we walked along the Marina Promenade and while we could see our starting point on the opposite side, we realised that getting there by foot would take us longer than we anticipated.
For the first time, in the history of our walks we combined our walk with a short MRT ride on the circle line from Nicoll Highway to the Stadium station. This was the first time I rode the circle line in this route and I was awestruck with life-like posters of sportsmen displayed, that befitted the theme and purpose of the Stadium station.
Once there, we split up to Vrunda and Anand Patel’s residence for meditation followed by a sumptuous brunch that was enjoyed by all of us and charged us up after the long but satisfying walk.
- Swati
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