S’pore Heritage Road Will Give You The Feeling Of Travel Back To Time Before Independence

S’pore Heritage Road Will Give You The Feeling Of Travel Back To Time Before Independence

If you have been always driving in the busy road around the island and you wanted something to ease off your mind and soul for a moment, perhaps a slow drive down this heritage road will give you that comfort feeling due to the long stretches of the road which are built with a 40-year-old tree as the landscape background and have been cared by the National Parks (NParks) for the past decades.

Started around 2001, these Heritage Road Scheme was to preserve these so-called green tunnels amidst the country’s rapid development, this five heritage road which has a buffer of 10m on both sides of each road is prohibited to remove trees and plants which are totally prohibited. Where this road are our country’s natural heritage against the impact of urbanization in our rapid building country.

Here are the 5 heritage road which will bring you back to the time before Singapore Independence day:
1. Arcadia Road – located nearby the Adam Park Estate where a cluster of the colonial home of Singapore History.

2. Mount Pleasant Road – the road flanked with mature Saga trees where the colonial bungalows in this area are used to house families of the police force prior to World War II. One of the bungalows also has a huge Burmese Banyan tree as well.

3. Mandai Road – constructed in 1855, this road serves as the main link between Woodlands and Upper Thomson and also connected to poultry and agriculture farming village in the past.

4. South Buona Vista Road – home to trees such as SilverBacks, Acacia, Tembusu, Tiup Tiup, Pelong trees, Kelat Nenasi, Salam, and Yellow Flame trees and named of Buona Vista which actually means good sight in Italian where this road has the splendid views on high slopes.

This road due to its hairpin curves, which are famous for racing circults for motorcar and bicycles in the 1950s to 1980s.

5. Lim Chu Kang Road – alined with Angsana, Broad Leaf Mahogany and Rubber trees and this road is built before the 1990s and were connected to various gambier, pepper and rubber plantation around the countryside.

photo from NParks / FB