Macritchie Treetop Walk Trailhead
Suspension bridge through primary rainforest canopy, with wartime ruins hidden on the trails below.
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This guide to the Macritchie Treetop Walk trailhead in Singapore starts with granite steps in the forest that lead nowhere, cut by nearly ten thousand Allied prisoners of war marched here in 1942 to build a Shinto shrine modeled on Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine. It traces the shrine's construction, its opening on the anniversary of Singapore's fall, and what became of it as Japan's occupation neared its end. The trail leads on to the Treetop Walk itself, a suspension bridge strung above the rainforest canopy.
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