Coast-to-Coast Trail: CP5 to CP6

Saturday 2019.09.21

Coast-to-Coast Trail	Day 01
From	Checkpoint 05 (AMK-Bishan Park 1)
To	Checkpoint 06 (Luxus Hill Park)
Distance	6.59 km with a detour to AMK Town Gdn West

C2C Trail CP5 to CP6: 6.59 km

This morning we began our first leg of walking the Coast-to-Coast (C2C) Trail by starting at Checkpoint 5 (CP5) in AMK-Bishan Park near our apartment block. In the comng weeks, we intend to cover all the Checkpoints from CP5 to CP10 in Punggol in the north-east, after which we will start from CP5 again and head "backwards" to CP1 in Jurong Lake Gardens on the south-west side of the island.

06:30 Start. We couldn't find CP5, so we started at one of these signposts, AMK-Bishan Park

A blur map in the twilight of dawn wasn't of much help to us

Reached the end of AMK Ave 6, looking south

We turned right, crossed the intersection to AMK Ave 5, and headed east

08:10 hrs We arrived at Luxus Hill, distance 6.59 km

CP6 is located at Luxus Hill Park

A snapshot of Luxus Hill Park

We came across a C2C promotion banner in the park

Goodbye! Luxus Hill Park

08:16 hrs
We finished our slow journey from Checkpoint 5 to Checkpoint 6 in this first leg of walking the Coast-to-Coast Trail. A distance of 6.59 km that took us about an hour and forty-five minutes.

08:34 hrs
We boarded double decker bus no. 50 at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 towards AMK Hub.

Aboard double decker no.50 along AMK Ave 5

Passing by AMK Stn across Ave 3

10:44 hrs
Later, I cycled out to AMK-Bishan Park to look for the starting Checkpoint 5 which we missed this morning. After some exploring, I found it beside the Water Playground.

At last, I found CP5 !

Beside the Water Playground.