Pulau Ubin

On January 14th, I was given the opportunity to go to a small island off of the coast of Singapore called Pulau Ubin. The island was originally inhabited by a few thousand people around 60 years ago, but most moved away once all of the granite had been cleaned out of the quarries. We were told that only a few hundred locals live there today, and that seems correct with what we saw.

The program was through NTU, and it was only for exchange students. We were broken into groups which helped me get to meet some other awesome students. I met some students from Pittsburgh, Maryland, Toronto, South Korea, and more. We were led by two NTU students who were also Singapore natives.

The island is not that large, in fact, I’m pretty sure we walked most of it in the 4(ish) hours that we were touring it. It’s mostly very dense forest, but there are some paths that are built into the water. We weaved in and out different parts of the island until we could barely walk anymore. The hills took a toll on everyone, but the scenery was great enough that we kept the complaining in our head.

Here are some photos that I took: