Mount Faber Walk: White-crested laughing thrush
Last weekend we went walking up and around Mount Faber.
This is a centrally located park in south central Singapore. You can take a taxi there, or you could go to the Harbourfront MRT station and take the cable car (gondola) that connects that station both to the top of Mount Faber and down to Sentosa Island. Since one of us is allergic to gondolas, we used a taxi.
Surprise! There are bathrooms and a couple of cafes at the top of Mount Faber, and at its pinnacle a big platform, with signs telling you what you’re looking towards in each direction. Manila, Bangkok, Jurong Bird Park, Indonesia – if not for the trees in your way you could see everything. As it was we enjoyed the breeze up there, preface to a thundershower that never developed, which was lucky since we wound up walking for a couple of hours. There is a series of interconnected paved and elevated trails that extends for 9 kilometers, tying together the parks and scenery of the southern ridges of Singapore, and we covered about half of them.
Above is a picture of the White-Crested Laughing Thrush, a most charming bird. We saw a group of three at the edge of the forest near the road on Mount Faber.
I’ll tell you more when I’ve gotten around to uploading my pix.