Day-trips around Singapore: Pulau Ubin

There are so many little islands surrounding Singapore, it's incredible. These pictures are from my first big day trip to the prettiest little island named Pulau Ubin. It's a fairly small island known for the Chek Jawa wetlands and for their biking trails. We took a boat over to the island and the ferry cost less than $2! 

It was a bit of a rocky ride as these boats seem like they serve dual purpose (fishing and ferrying) but it was beautiful none the less!

When we got to the island we decided to sit down and enjoy fresh coconut juice to cool off a bit. I cannot even describe the incredible flavor. Plus the coconut juice softens up the inside of the coconut so that you can scoop out some coconut to eat after finishing the juice.

After lunch we rented bikes and set off to explore the island! I absolutely love biking so I was ecstatic to find out that this is how most people on the island get around. It was neat riding through the rainforest, there were even a few stretches that smelled of fresh coconut and rain!

There were a few places where we parked the bikes and took hikes around. This was the boardwalk through the Chek Jawa Wetlands! I'm still constantly in awe by the tropical plants and the massive size of their leaves. 

Here's the lot of us that explored Pulau Ubin together! 

There are only a few reasons that I can think of to climb 8 flights of stairs in 90 degree weather, but this view is most definitely one of those reasons. You have to understand that from the ground looking up at this incredibly tall lookout point, we had no idea what the view would be like and if it would be worth it. But of course our curiousness wouldn't allow a few stairs to scare us away. 

Near the end of our bike ride, as we turned a corner we saw at least 8 monkeys all playing on the road in front of us! They were so used to humans coming through they didn't even mind as we snapped pictures of them, their main concern was tracking down food and stuffing any and everything into their mouths.