EP54 Chiayi Alishan National Forest | The Women's Kingdom

Episode 54 takes us up into Alishan — one of Taiwan's most beloved mountain destinations. We ride the forest railway through cedar and cypress, walk the Sacred Tree trail among thousand-year-old giants, and stand on the Er-yanping overlook where the morning mist fills the valleys like an ocean. Over bamboo tube rice cooked in fire-roasted green bamboo and smoky wild boar sausage from a roadside grill, we enter the Women's Kingdom — one of Journey to the West's most unusual chapters. A kingdom run entirely by women, a queen who wants to marry Tang Monk, a plan to escape, and a spider demoness who shows up at exactly the wrong moment.Location: AlishanFood: Bamboo Tube Rice | Wild Boar Sausage