Bukit Batok Nature Park - from quarry to Little Guilin
Bukit Batok Nature Park is known as the Guilin of Singapore it resembles the much bigger Guilin Mountains in China. Little Guilin or colloquially known as Xiao Guilin by the locals here. 'Xiao' is a Chinese word meaning small or little. The hill is part of the nature park but has become the main attraction of it due to its photographic and scenic allure. Bukit Batok Nature Park is a respite for those living in the western part of Singapore. The park is not located to the extreme west like Jurong Lake Gardens but is actually closer to the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve to the east and there is a 1.8 km (1.1 miles) park connector network walking path linking between the two nature parks as they are both part of the 36km coast-to-coast trail . Some hikers may combine Bukit Timah with Bukit Batok if they wish for a longer walk. Bukit Batok literally means 'coughing hill'. Bukit is a Malay word which translates to hill while batok means cough. While timah translates to ...