Hello and welcome back! Today, we walked the Jubilee Trail. The trail was launched in 2015 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Singapore’s independence! It takes us through a lot of Singapore s iconic landmarks!
For the start of our walk, we started at Boat Quay, which is about halfway through, If you are planning to walk this trail, it is 8km in total if you are starting at the National Museum of Singapore and ending at Gardens By The Bay 🙂
The Start
So for the start of the trail, we decided to start at Boat Quay and eat our lunch there.
After our lunch, we walked to the first landmark, Singapore River
Amazing right, the landscape of the Central Business District never gets old for me, the many different skyscrapers are all around amazing behind the Singapore River.
After we finished marvelling at the landscape, we crossed a bridge to get to the other side of Boat Quay, after crossing the bridge, we were met with another iconic landmark……
Yup, it’s the Parliament House, hidden behind the trees. After passing the Parliament House, we continued walking across the wide path.
Littered along the Jubilee Trail are these small circles. These circles mark where the trail is and helped us make sure we weren’t off trail. Pretty helpful
Ah yes, another cool landmark, the statue of Sir Stamford Raffles, the man who founded it all, you’ll being seeing another statue of him later…..
Into the city
After passing the Asian Civilizations Museum, we entered the city of Singapore, AKA the Central Business District. The land of skyscrapers!
Now, another big building started to come into view, a hotel next to the river,a big one too. Give you any ideas?
Yup. Being one of the biggest and expensive hotels, I had to take a nice picture of it. Fun fact it used to be the former General Post Office.Â
The end of the path
At the end of the path, opposite of the Fullerton Hotel, was a huge building. This is the Victoria Theatre & Victoria Concert Hall and in front of it lay the other Sir Stamford Raffles statue, this one is bronze however, not white.
Behind Victoria Concert Hall, there was a bridge which connected us to the other side of the river, where the Fullerton Hotel was, after this, we got to the cool parts
The Merlion Park
Here we are, the other side of the bridge led us to MBS, the other side of it, which was also where the iconic Merlion Statue is.
Alright, I could show a lot of photos of the Merlion ( I have a LOT ) but I will show justttt one more
That’s pretty epic. Back to the trail, it just so happened that today, was a National Day rehearsal, that explains the songs playing.
OK, after staring at it for a while, we continued on
Across another bridge…
This bridge is actually named the Jubilee Bridge, or something like that. We crossed this bridge and after this, we kinda got sidetracked by a flowing river of water, we decided to follow the water, passed a few fountains and found our way back on the trail
So, after studying the map, we found out that we needed to make our way to the Padang. However, we were on the exact opposite side. We found this elevator down to what we thought was a train station, but I wasn’t, just a linkage to the other side
And here we were at the Padang, we saw this : Tan Kim Seng Fountain . A fountain without water though. Next up.
After this, we went around the monument and saw a bunch of names who fought in WW1. Fun fact The Cenotaph was built in memory of the 124 British soldiers born or resident in Singapore who gave their lives in World War I (1914–1918), with a second dedication (but no names) added in remembrance of those who died in World War II (1939–1945). Quoted from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cenotaph,_Singapore
After this, we continued on.
Final Stretch
After this we walked behind the war memorial and walked past the National Gallery
This was when we realized that we were pretty much done when we saw…
Now, we just walked back the exact same path, got some lychee drink on the way back to the car and went home after that!
The end
This was a nice walk, didn’t take very long as we only did half of it but I’m sure there are more sights to see.
I think that if you wanna take a nice walk around the city and take a tour of the biggest landmarks in Singapore, or at least most of them. This is the trail for you, this was great and I really liked it. So, until next time… See you!!