Many of Singapore 60+ islands are nothing more than bits & pieces of rocks, but there are are handful bigger ones worth a jaunt. A half-hour ferry ride takes you to St. John's Island and Kusu Island, where one can picnic and take a dip in the sea.
Kusu Island - tortoise island in a Chinese dialect - houses a small Chinese temple where thousands of devotees pay homage to the deity Da Ba Gong each September. During the rest of year, the island is the epitome of tranquility, like on the Sunday we were there. Other than two families out on a group picnic, a gaggle of Filipino maids enjoying their day off, the odd ang moh tourist, the lone gardener, and three caretakers of the temple, there was no one else on there. There are no shops, no tours, no entertainment unless you count the tortoises.
Even the tortoises seem to move faster in this slow island
That's all there is to the island.
Since we practically rolled out of our beds into the car and then into the ferry, we were ill-equipped to spend 2 hours on an island. One half of a tiny container of breakfast cereal, a few small bottles of water, sun hats - that was all we had. No problems, though. The children passed time by hunting for leaves to cover up ant holes on the ground, played hide and seek among the trees, and waded in the shallow sea water.
The temple hosts a Goddess of Mercy (Guan Yin) and the Da Ba Gong deity.
There's Singapore!
The beach and waters here is much better than those on the main island of Singapore or Sentosa
Not sure why they were mocking me, but I am sure YL has got something to do with it
1 comment:
sophie has shot up with her height or what?
i never knew singapore has so many little islands as part of the country. for some reason, impression i've got is many of them belong to indonesia...
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