We’re back with our yearly tradition of a National Day walk! This year we’re hiking from Windsor Nature Park to Tree Top Walk. Along the way, we will look out for wildlife and share stories about the many plants and animals that also call our city home.
Participants can choose their own route out of MacRitchie after reaching the Tree Top Walk. The journey from Windsor Nature Park to the Tree Top Walk is approximately 2.5 km and will be a 1.5 hr walk. (Please note that the journey back will be at least another 2.5km). More details will be shared with confirmed participants. We will be sending you an email before the date of the walk.
It is not recommended for young children below the age of 7 to attend this event as the walk will be long and on uneven terrain.
This island is one of Singapore’s few islands that can still be visited by the public, and only a 45-minute ferry ride away. The tranquil nature found here include coastal forest, Triassic cliffs, sandy beach, rocky seashore, inter-tidal, mangrove, and coral reefs offshore. These easily accessible varied natural habitats make this island an excellent spot for nature study and outdoor exploration. Sea turtles have been recorded to come on-shore to lay their eggs. Rare, endangered seashore plants are still found surviving along its coastline.
Our nature camp program:
Saturday 10/6:
1.00pm Board ferry at Marina South Pier to St. John’s 1.45pm Arrive on St. John’s, free & easy 3.00pm Check into our dormitory campsite, program briefing 4.00pm Nature-guided trek round the island 6.00pm Dinner 7.30pm Nature-guided night walk 10.00pm Night sky-gazing, zzzzzz
Sunday 11/6:
7.00am Breakfast, nature-guided walk to Lazarus Island via land bridge 10.00pm Check-out of dorm 12.00pm Board ferry to Marina South Pier
Cost: If we have a group of 15 paying pax, it is at $80 per participant. If we have a group of 20 paying pax, it is at $60 per participant. FOC for kids age 6 years and below of participants.
Cost includes provision of breakfast, and does not include the other meals and ferry rides ($15 return per adult/kid).
Please note:
St. John’s and its dorm are managed by Singapore Land Authority which requires advance booking with the personal particulars of all overnight visitors.
To reserve your seat/s, please email the participant/s:
- full name as in identity card/passport
- identity card/passport number
- mobile number
to Andrew at: andrewtay.sg@gmail.com
Closing date for registration: 10 May 2023
Falling on 22 April, Earth Day marks the occasion to highlight the pressing environmental issues that we’re facing and the need to protect our planet. Join Cicada Tree Eco-Place for a guided walk in MacRitchie forest, part of the largest nature reserve and green lung in Singapore, and home to rich biodiversity. We will be exploring Windsor Nature Park and Venus Loop for this walk led by our volunteer guides. Get to spot mammals like the Malayan Colugo, birds like the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, and cool insects such as dragonflies and beetles. Learn why secondary forests like MacRitchie is crucial to us and how you can do your part for the environment.
This walk is free of charge and suitable for kids 5 years old and above.
Please note that your seat is confirmed after you register for the tickets. We will send all confirmed participants an email with more details of the walk, including meeting location, one week prior to the event. Those who joined the waitlist will be informed via email if there are available slots.
Wildlife-watching guided walk at Rifle Range Nature Park by Cicada Tree Eco-Place to celebrate World Wildlife Day.
Date and time:
SATURDAY 4th March 2023.
9.00am to 11.30am.
Venue:
Rifle Range Nature Park
Description:
The 3rd of March is World Wildlife Day. It is a United Nations international day to celebrate our world’s amazing wild animals and plants, and their importance to our lives and to our planet. The theme for this year is ‘Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation’. We Human Beings rely on wildlife and biodiversity-based resources – Nature – for all our needs, from food to medicines and fuel. A sustainable partnership between Man and Nature is crucial.
Singapore may be a tiny island but it still has an amazing diversity of wildlife found living in its remnant rainforest, mangrove, marshland, and in the surrounding sea. Globally endangered wildlife living here include the Sunda Pangolin, Straw-headed Bulbul, Dugong, and the Hawksbill Sea Turtle.
To celebrate our wildlife and wild places, we visit the newly opened Rifle Range Nature Park to look for wildlife both big and small. Here, pathways wind though forested hills, stream and marshland which provide protected homes for wildlife. This guided walk will involve some easy climbing up a hill to a look-out point.
Please note:
This walk is free of charge but participants will be requested to give a donation of any amount to the local animal welfare charity ACRES (Animal Concerns Research and Education Society).
To register, please email names of adult/kid participant/s to Andrew at: andrewtay.sg@gmail.com
Details and instructions will be provided upon registration.
Love MacRitchie Forest nature-guided walk by Cicada Tree Eco-Place in celebration of Singapore World Water Day 2023
Date and time:
SUNDAY 12th March 2023
9.00am to 11.30am
Venue: MacRitchie Forest
Description
Our priceless Central Catchment Nature Reserve (CCNR) consists of the reservoirs of MacRitchie, Lower & Upper Peirce, Lower & Upper Seletar, and the crucial, remnant rainforests that surround them. The rainforest here creates rain and catches rainfall, storing it in its ecosystem, and drop by drop form streams slowly winding through the forest and into our reservoirs. So, in Singapore, we are also drinking water that has been made and filtered by its rainforests! We explore via the earth track through the rainforest, and onto the boardwalk along the reservoir’s edge, by-passing lush swamp-forest habitat home to unique native freshwater critters, such as the Treehugger, Dwarf Snakehead and Forest Softshell, their survival depending on a source of unpolluted freshwater. Cicada trees, monkey cups and lianas are some of the amazing flora that still thrive in these cool forests, helping to balance our climate and filter the very air we breathe.
Cost: S$13 per participant. Kids age 8 years and below of participants tag along for free.
To register, please email names of adult/child participant/s to Andrew at: andrewtay.sg@gmail.com
Details and instructions will be provided upon registration.
Urban organic food-gardening workshop with vegan lunch at Kampung Senang holistic health centre, by Cicada Tree Eco-Place.
Date and time:
SATURDAY 18th March 2023
9.30am to 1.00pm
Venue:
Kampung Senang’s centre in Tampines
Description:
This workshop includes:
guided tour of an urban organic farm and high-rise gardening
how to organically grow tropical veg, herbs and spices
learn about soil mixtures, organic fertilisers and composting
plant propagation methods
vegan set lunch with salad and soup
veg seeds and herb cuttings for participants to adopt
Cost: S$40 per adult. S$20 per child.
To register, please email names of adult/child participant/s to Andrew at: andrewtay.sg@gmail.com
Details and instructions will be provided upon registration.
Kampung Senang Charity and Education Foundation is an eco-conscious charity providing holistic, compassion-focused care programmes and activities to promote well-being, good health and happiness – www.kampungsenang.org
