Transmission tower closer to the top of Bukit Batok Hill. Bukit means hill in Malay, so Hill is actually redundant :).
Still climbing.
The stairs leading up to the destroyed war monuments. And the Bukit Batok Memorial on the steps.
Because Bukit Batok looks on Old Ford Factory, the site of the British surrender in 1942, the Japanese have built a war memorial and Shinto shrine on the top of the hill to honour their dead. They have destroyed it prior to their surrender to the British, so that their dead are not desecrated by the Brits. The ashes of the Japanese war heroes are now interred at the Japanese Cemetery (see my post here).
This is the Bukit Batok Memorial. The upper map shows the Malay peninsula and important battle sites of World War II in Malaya. The lower map is of Singapore and important World War II sites.
"Two monuments once stood on top of this hill in memory of Allied and Japanese soldiers killed in the battle for Singapore.
Built by some 500 Allied prisoners-of-war in 1942, the Japanese memorial, the Syonan Chureito was a 40-foot high wooden pylon topped with a brass cone. To the rear was a small hut housing the ashes of Japanese soldiers killed in the Battle for Bukit Timah. The prisoners-of-war were allowed to build a second monument to honour the Allied dead. This was a 10-foot high wooden cross which stood behind the Japanese monument.
The Syonan Chureito was destroyed by the Japanese before the return of the Allied forces to Singapore in 1945."
And now down to the Park.
That is the wall of the quarry where I am headed.
And I have arrived. I have to say it was close to 5 o'clock, so the light conditions were not ideal for taking pictures.
...but there it is.
Goodbye Bukit Batok. On to little Guilin.
A mosque on the way.
And here we go, Little Guilin. Guilin is a famous place in China in Guanxi province. It lies on the banks of the Li river, and is considered the pearl of the Chinese tourist industry, on account of its stunning natural beauty.
Little Guilin is said to be similarly spectacular.
Just so that you also see that this is not a vast natural beauty with miles and miles of uninhabited space. In Singapore nothing is ever very far from an HDB.
But back to Little Guilin.
Bukit Gombak Stadium on the next hill.
And my dinner :)
And finally the Bukit Gombak MRT station, on my way to home.
