There are six stops along the walk: Changi village, Changi prison, Changi spit, Changi Creek, Pulau Ubin and the East Coast Parkway. To proceed to each stop, click on the image wherever the cursor changes to an arrow. Please note that the tour is not linear.

In the first few weeks of the Japanese Occupation in early 1942, 2300 European civilians were made to march from Katong to Changi Prison. In August that year, Lt-Gen Arthur Percival (the General Officer Commanding Malaya, who took the blame for the Fall of Singapore to the Japanese) and Governor Shenton Thomas were moved from Roberts Barracks at Changi Prison to Taiwan. The prison was also the scene of a 'sit-down' campaign of the Barisan Sosialis, who were protesting against the National Service Bill and amendments to the Trade Union Ordinance. Today, the prison houses condemned prisoners, preventive trainees and adult male offenders sentenced to more than five years' imprisonment.

There are around four hundred residents on Pulau Ubin. Development of the island has been assured by the National Parks Board to proceed with due sensitivity to the natural environment and its traditional way of life.

The East Coast Parkway connects Changi airport to the Central Business District. More than half of the airport was built on land reclaimed from the sea. The planned total capacity by 2004 will be 64 million passenger movements annually.

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This panorama was created on 24 February 1998

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