We are almost half way there.
Walking along, we reached the next stop that Ah Gong had drawn on his map. It looks like a bridge that was drawn on the trail! We did a bit of research before our trip and found out that the little bridge had probably overlooked a small stream, although the stream had dried up quite some time ago. Now, a pathway has been built in its place...
Walking along, we reached the next stop that Ah Gong had drawn on his map. It looks like a bridge that was drawn on the trail! We did a bit of research before our trip and found out that the little bridge had probably overlooked a small stream, although the stream had dried up quite some time ago. Now, a pathway has been built in its place...
While the bridge didn’t seem so ‘little’ anymore, we imagined it to be a narrow and unstable bridge that Ah Gong walked across.
Ahh! We’re falling…
We also found out from the national parks website that the place was named ‘Parit Singapura’, meaning the Moat of Singapore. However, according to an online translation website, the Malay word ‘parit’ refers to a ‘ditch, drain or canal’. Isn’t it odd that they used the word ‘Parit’ to name the Moat of Singapore? Since moats were supposed to be structures built for protection and defense, we’d imagined them to be much bigger than the size of drains that we see today.
Is this moat related to the small stream that the bridge had overlooked?
Is this moat related to the small stream that the bridge had overlooked?
Resources:
http://www.nparks.gov.sg/cms/popup/fort-attractions.html
http://kamus.lamanmini.com/index.php
http://www.nparks.gov.sg/cms/popup/fort-attractions.html
http://kamus.lamanmini.com/index.php
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