Everything Jonathan: Fort Canning

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Fort Canning

Fort Canning is situated right in the city center very close to Bras Basah MRT. As I am not sure about the route from that MRT to the site, went to City Hall MRT instead.

Exiting from the MRT to North Bridge Road, Capitol is right in front. It is currently under renovation.

Walking along side Stamford Rd towards the tunnel, there will be a walkway just before the tunnel. You can see the walkway in the picture.

The walk way leads to a carpark. Walking across the carpark, you can see a tunnel which goes under Canning Rise.

Walk through it. If you have claustrophobia, you can still take the stair case 25M to the left of the tunnel to go to Canning Rise.

After the tunnel, there are rams and staircase leading up to the road. The entrance to Fort Canning is right at the end of the staircase.

Saw a girl taking photo of a very small flower right there. Took one myself too.

Further down, there is a Gothic gate. Unfortunately, a Taiwanese uncle touring the place walked right into my picture.

Went into the gate and followed the foot path. You can't see this path in Google Map. OpenStreetMap has the detail. On turning left, there is a Muslim Tomb. It is the Iskandar Shah Tomb.

After walking around the tomb, did a S turn behind ROM. On the way took a few flower picture.

Can't help but notice a worn out information board. The letters are falling off already.

Further down, there is a long cement wall with carvings on it.

If you are not sure which part of the history you are in, there is a "mile stone" to indicate.

The original plan is to go two loops at Fort Canning. Too bad the plan was foiled by this.

I have no choice but to walk back and to the joining route up to the second loop then back down to the first loop further down. Took a wrong turn and end up going behind Hotel Fort Canning. However it is still a walking path.

Took a picture of the entrance behind the hotel.

Managed to get back to the original track after the hotel. Took a few pictures of sculptures.

Further down the road, came across another Gothic gate that looked very similar to the first one.

The Dance theater is behind a big open field.

Couldn't cut through the building as planned. Thus walk by the side to the left. This time choose the inner loop route. The route has a name "Doubbie Rise". There is a 8 pound cannon overlooking the coast.

This is how the path look like.

In case you are not sure where you are, the "mile stone" will tell you.

Walking over the same path as before, turn right instead. This structure has a name "untitled". Odd. I though it was a chair from afar. It has chrome surface. You can see me reflected on it.

Besides it there is an ugly iron cow sculpture.

There is a structure with more cows besides it. It is the old fort gate.

Walked right by the Dance theater again without noticing it. Took the same picture of the cannon before realizing I had a double take.

Walking back and goes in front of the building. Walked beside the open green and saw this structure. It is called the Cupolas. The sign board named it "Double xx". I can't remember what is it after the "Double".

I have already notice that there are very old walls on both side of the open field. There were inscriptions on the wall all the way. Only when I walked very close then I notice they are tomb stones embedded into the wall. It is the first Christian Cemetery in Singapore according to NParks guide.

On the way out, can't help but take another flower picture.

Instead of walking back to City Hall MRT, It tried to walk towards Bras Basah MRT instead. There is a road crossing right after the exit at Canning Rise. Walking down the path between Museum and SMU school of Accounting. There is a non operational escalator. Probably only turned on during weekends.

In front of the museum, noticed a sign board that says "Old Malay wall". I can't see the wall. I can only see a fence like structure behind the sign board.