I am Zahra and work in a travel agency hello guys my name is mama yo I design

and purchase top Yousef is a high school students and Zara works at a travel

agency but neither of them has ever left their home country before and finally

it's happening this is beyond dream come true for me because all my expenses are

fully paid I looking forward to as Prince what buy one can offer to me so

for this episode Patti is gonna bring the both of them

around on a railroad adventure of Taiwan I've never study about railway station

that way and it's really interesting Taiwan good

hope so are you ready

a smart and relaxing way to cruise around the island is by train each

railway line has its own unique looks of the nature and allows us to trace back

to the old days getting to know the history of each area each station also

has their own stories so this time I'm gonna take sari and yussef travel around

Taiwan slow

alright perfect timing for a spring party and what I mean spring party is

with the blossoms this is the perfect season for plum flowers and Japanese

Sakura yeah I lucky yeah you love Japanese culture right Sakura is a big

part of it and we have a flower girl here your name is Zara which mayflower

yes so we'll be seeing a lot of Zara's all over here we've been walking around

you're in for some walk power walk so we can eat more later yeah yeah

oh wow oh so pretty this is like a wonderland right over here it's peach

blossoms and over there the white one is the plum bus yeah as you what are what

the flower famous in Taiwan okay we like every flower and all of the flowers are

really nice

so in this place there's so much to explore including mystery this is not an

average plum tree but is actually a native mountain cherry blossom only seen

here in and also it's called the Usos an e or Susan

you know the Taiwanese creativity and artsy stuff is actually everywhere even

in this beautiful flowery forest so if we look over here this is what we have

at the back of us this whole section is actually a huge maze mm-hmm

have you ever like ran in the kind of maze before no so we're gonna go inside

compete about a bit of a challenging for ya it's been too quiet over there

okay put down our bags warm up rowm warm up okay and the loser has to cheat the

other people drinks which one

Russia

oh isn't this a beautiful day Oh Jean ha ha we have tea there is a

mountain tea oh man sentir see this is not good

it smells really good I also had surprise for you first yeah

this favorite white wine and it actually looks like blossoms from the Train

um cheers do you want to share your TV confess but no so much fun with Zara

Youssef we had a bit of an action running around the maze and competing a

bit and it's time for some nature now some cultural traveling style we had so

much arranged for you guys this trip okay this week it's gonna be really

really busy but exciting as well and to give you guys a bit of a picture of what

we're gonna do this in Taiwan we have many mountains beautiful valleys and of

course many waterfalls alright guys ready for the trip yeah a

railway trip is starting from here from Geelong so we're currently here now and

it's the most northern part of Taiwan you can see our beautiful sea yeah over

here already got your backpack yes your drinks and everything let's

head to the station they'll tell you more about this place okay

we started our railway trip from the pinkie line where one of the oldest

railways were built which has many many stories from the past

now the scenery is slowly changing we're going in the valleys through a lot of

tunnels and there will be a lot of lakes and Warford

so this is the traditional street of Taiwan okay I was sitting plus to

explore around the station as always so we're gonna walk around here and eat

about and see if you wanna buy souvenirs from your breath

I've read shipping all street before and at the easily interesting because it's

our first time watching Lenten pay and is not what we can easily found in

Malaysia

oh there's more

and the suspension bridge this is a really old one as well when I get on

English I can handle it in stable and more awkward and we play some running

and play some real gift and we go to sleep wait and it's so fun so I was

saying before that the railway was actually built for coal miners something

so since we here I'm gonna take you guys to experience how in the ancient times

the coal miners transport okay

I noticed but that we have to high key in Taiwan

yes all the birds made it to us to go to mountain and found secret place you're

happy I got your checklist okay we'll wait for our train over here this is the

ancient railway and we have a bit of time I don't know when it will come

but eventually well those translate over here and

and then we sit a while to wait for the train arrive nice

in all of things oh I think oh my train is here finally

and I'm on a mine striving and I think is really fun to watch that the option

is still moving as you can see the photo

hope you've been having a great time so far obviously Patty is gonna be the one

that's gonna be taking you around we're also giving you a handful of money

we're giving you a hundred thousand empty and you can spend it however you

would like so you have a few days you can think about it get to know Taiwan

get to know the people paddy can help you out

and yeah have fun to have a great time but if you already this is our ride like

I said she's a classic okay so from about 1930 - she's Bluebell Maslow rusty

side but she still works well so are you ready to get your hands dirty yeah we're

gonna go visit the coal museum oh okay let's go

the one-eyed chain which we call Julia Nelson is one of the earliest

electrified pole trains that still exists

it was like from secret getaway to another secret getaway I think it's

really fun to go there

this will be particularly important you can see this enough all the names of the

workers and what you do is you can do now is write your name on both of them

okay you'll do the same all of us have to do it because we're all gonna go into

the coal mine okay right both with your name on it when you

are working inside the coal mine you take your yellow one and you put it in

your pocket and you have this with you all day and only when you come back from

work you put your name back and then that way they know who's here and who's

sitting inside yeah it's our first day on the job ready for work okay Here I am

okay okay everybody got your yellow tanks yes all right

put in your pocket we're going we're going to work okay I still mommy very

very dark sore back yeah and this is considered like one of the higher ones I

mean normally hmm the tunnels are like almost this slope okay yeah and they

would have to dig out the coal like this so they'd be in this position all day

long to be a coal miner so difficult and so tired every year I think it's really

dangerous and not a really good environment for women work good

here you can see what they wanted so this is Apple this is correct

Wow okay this is Nicole that you want and this is the rock that you do not

want to leave have to separate the two now these are very very heavy and if

you'd like we can try and experience what they used to have to push out by

themselves yeah come on we'll do it outside so I mana is going to be our

judge and what we have to do is we have to push this cart now this is filled

with actual Colt mm-hmm it's very very heavy how heavy I think topological king

uh okay we have to split up into teams we have a game it's called black and

white okay well do one two three and we'll see who's team who's on his team

three point one two three

come on guitar at first I thought use of empathy thing will be because this guy

tough guy right here okay ready I don't know I think we were too proud in the

beginning it was like okay how many people you watching TV now guess that we

were gonna lose yeah hey hey let's go get some rink GEHA okay

let's go get

right all right all yellow oh fuck I'll save you good good is your boss I would

say all y'all done again good job stick but you did get a little

bit dirty sOooo now I'm gonna send you off with patty to

lean gel waterfalls somebody's excited I studied for a little bit so wonderful

is famous so I think oh it's so much at least it's on top of I don't want to see

that all excited yes good oh you're gonna enjoy it

we're gonna send you off enjoy the railway and maybe I'll see you what are

the other centers okay yeah yeah I'm so much like surprising them you read her

mind yeah

you see the curve of this railway yeah this is how this station got its name

because this looks like a smile so this station is called the smile station it's

really cute huh yeah but curved from all over there and

the link to our waterfall is just steps ahead I think I hear some water from the

air oh wow

and I never heard of that place before which is really interesting to know and

then the waterfall this list from the what is civility and actually we thought

like maybe we can jump into it there is summer people come here to swim

and signal a yeah picnic barbecue and stuff then this is a kind of a secret

getaway so not much people know this

the waterfall check yeah this a pretty close chemical the name online was first

built for transporting lumber and concrete but now it's a beautiful haka

City with the genuine looks of the past most importantly there is a master that

Yusuf would be so pleased to see all right so this is senior station

this station was built here when the Japanese rule Taiwan so this is a

monument representative of the scene to area and this is where we'll start our

name on lines a railway trip that's how one culture is actually a

fusion of lots of different cultures but the culture future like in Malaysia as

well yes many wishes yes there's Chinese Union and steep odd and we are also

really anything and we live together and put together yes just what they were

like so I was saying that every station has its own kind of topic yeah this

watching station is about now so you'll see a lot of installation art a lot of

stories about love and I'll tell you more why it's celebrating love yeah a

lot more insight they are couple who have first met at the station and they

thought they need to preserve their love location to make it into tourist

attraction they happily married but this station was going to be kind of closed

down so there thinks oh this represents our love this station declared our love

so we're gonna save this place oh yeah so they brought it down and

actually renovated and now it's representing love love station and as

you can see over here all of these wood boards they have people's blessings on

top like to declare their love or their wishes and if you're single like me I

would write like blessings to myself will work for Prosperity and for health

so let's write something like this okay yeah let's do the same thing okay

I can draw

like something that I want to do in Taiwan is first mil miss would I write

wish for myself we just we have be good for myself and I wish the best for

myself okay where to hang you chose your best place hope our wishes come true

happiness prosperity and health yes to you up alright let's get something to

drink or ice cream

we'll Park tae-hwan especially where we are now seeing two is actually a haka

City yeah so you have a city we can see the art so we can experience their

culture and feed about the culture I

can't think of a better way to know one's culture by eating it up who

doesn't love to eat right to taste the best part of Hakka culture yes ha ha ha

myself I'm gonna take you to one of the most authentic and most traditional dish

it's actually a drink a very nutritious drink called later Leyte yes and as you

can see here this is what we are gonna use to bring these there's lots of

ingredients this is pottery ceramics and this is

made from Walla tree so it's very very tough and to taste the good stuff you'll

need a bit of work to do so you're gonna cooperate

it's the blings love ok so who's gonna hold the ball and who's gonna grind i'm

cooperation cooperation good brother is so difficult to do that and

my sister at me to a whore that born I think what is easy it's not easy because

you need to grind it up very very fine until it looks like this okay you need

like you have like two hours to finish

keep it up so put the bit of magic with finishes - powder we're really close huh