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Looking for an escape from the concrete jungle of Singapore, I ended up on Pulau Ubin. This tiny island in the Strait of Johor offers some quiet spots, small villages, and dense vegetation. After a short subway/bus/boat trip from downtown Singapore we rented a bicycle at the pier and directly hit the roads. Very soon we saw one of the quarries on this island, which have been used to built the city. Quite soon we arrived at the other side of the island where we found a Thai temple. 
We continued on a dirt road, had to cycle around a few water pools and prevent collision with hanging trees, and some nice viewpoints on the sea and other lakes and quarries. Ultimately we backtracked a little bit and cycled to one of the beaches of this island, which apart from being absolutely empty, was also full of litter. After all, Singapore is one of the busiest ports of the world, which shows also in the water. 
From the beach we took another dirt track which probably was one of the nicest bits of cycling we did. Again, a lot of dense vegetation and mangrove lakes were our reward. We had a short drinking pause at a peaceful, tiny village after which we took a small path through the woods to return to the seashore. A huge oil tanker slowly moving against the background of the monotonous Singapore skyscrapers reminded us again of the vicinity of the city. We only wondered how long it will take before also this small tropical area will fall to the claws of expanding Singapore.
