KK's Photo Friday: Bukit Batok Town Park, Little Guilin

Today I took a taxi to the Bukit Batok town park. I saw this park once a few years ago when we were getting our Singapore driving licenses. I've never used my license but it was fun getting it anyways and during the drive there we went past this gorgeous park. I've always wanted to go back but it is so far. Funny, its such a small island I suppose it truly isn't that far but it feels like quite a journey. The harsh mid day light proved to be not the best backdrop so now I still want to go back only next time after 6pm to get the "blue hour" light in the background.

On this map, it is hard to see but we are at Marina South and the park is near Jurong East, there is an icon of three trees in a green circle covering Bukit Batok. So really not so far, but far.

Used to be a granite quarry and converted into a park in the 1980's.

There are condos and HDBs close by. I think it would be nice to live right here. It is on the park connector and so close to the Upper Pierce Resevoir and MacRitchie.... oh yeah. I don't like MacRitchie, that is where the monkeys live and I don't go there, EVER. So maybe downtown is still best for me.

I didn't adjust the color on any of these photos. Everything is super green naturally. The park is named Little Guilin because the granite rock formations resemble those in Guilin, China.

Some of the photos I did use the Mimic HDR tool but not on this one. When I tried the tool it really changed the coloring and texture of the rock and it wasn't at all how I remembered seeing them just a few hours ago. So for this photo I only cropped it.