This series of boardwalks through the Central Catchment Nature Reserve brings you through one of Singapore’s last remaining mature secondary forests and along the edge of Lower Peirce Reservoir. You’ll find rubber trees and oil palms within the Reserve because the plot of land adjacent to it had been formerly a rubber plantation. This area is not just known for its former rubber plantations but the existing Old Upper Thomson Road used to be Singapore’s first race track for racing cars. This is a not at all hard walk, suitable for families with young kids and the elderly. Start your walk near house no. 72 along Old Upper Thomson Road at the Casuarina Entrance. Shaded by the forest, the walk is pleasantly cool. There are plenty of informative signboards across the boardwalk that tell you more concerning the flora and fauna with this forest. The forest is home to significantly more than 900 flowering plants, 100 ferns and 250 animal species. You’ll encounter a wide variety of wildlife from mammals to aquatic creatures and enjoy wonderful panaromas of waters surrounded by a luxuriant forest. On occasion, around noon, you may see White-bellied Fish Eagles soaring in the sky and within the waters of the reservoir.