Originally Posted by
Braniff
Thank you Midships. These are excellent resources.
I am principally interested in trying to see what daily life is like in these towns - not so much a nature / hiking focus.
I suppose going to the main mall in a selection of towns and walking around the neighborhoods and seeing the community services is the simplest but perhaps not the most rewarding ?
I’ve seen some private tours offering visits to HDB estates but they seem to be rather expensive !
Good luck with it, my knowledge of the Heartlands is fairly limited, I went up to Ang Mo Kio every week for about a year for my covid PCR tests, other than that, my knowledge is mostly from the upper deck of a bus passing through them to say the Changi ferry terminal to go out to Pulau Ubin, an island in the Johor Strait which is as close to an original Kampong as I think you'll find. I think outside of your wish list, but here's a link anyway:
https://www.nparks.gov.sg/pulau-ubin...out-pulau-ubin
You may find this of interest, which is close to Geylang where we live:
https://www.roots.gov.sg/stories-lan...ritage-Gallery
Tiong Bahru is technically Heartlands i the process of gentrification and being "hip" (sorry hate that word), and is one of the 9oldest housing estates in Singapore.
Scroll down here:
https://www.wheresingapore.com/exploring-heartlands
Good luck.