Journey + Leisure‘s award-winning podcast, Lost Cultures: Living Legacies, is again with an all-new season crammed with episodes highlighting the individuals who make a few of our favourite journey locations so particular and culturally wealthy. 

Hosted by T+L’s affiliate editorial director, Alisha Prakash, season two takes listeners on a multi-episode journey by means of communities whose histories proceed to form the world at present. 

Final season, we heard from cultural consultants in New York City’s Lower East Side, as soon as the epicenter of immigrant America, and Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, the place the Maya nonetheless protect millennia‑previous rituals. We ventured to Egypt to be taught extra in regards to the Nubians, traveled to Louisiana for a little bit of Creole backstory, met the mysterious «painted individuals» generally known as the Picts—a once-prominent tribe in Scotland that just about disappeared from historical past books—shared a dialog with the Taino individuals of the Caribbean, and sailed to the distant Rapa Nui (often known as Easter Island) to find how islanders carry their ancestors’ legacy ahead. Every episode options participating conversations with archaeologists, cooks, artists, and native stewards who’re working laborious to make sure their cultures reside on without end. 

We’re increasing our attain in season two, spotlighting extra celebrated and little-known cultures. First cease: Bermuda.

«Bermuda’s dwelling legacy is its individuals. I believe we’re fairly particular,» Dr. Kristy Warren, a Bermudian and professor on the College of Lincoln in England, shares within the episode. «There aren’t many people on the earth, and we appear to have the ability to punch above our weight. We present up in all types of areas of life and the world over.» 

From there, we set our sights on Hawaii to satisfy the Kānaka Maoli, the final word ocean navigators, then on to Norway, the place the Indigenous Sami await. Then, it’s off to Asia to discover the Baghdadi Jewish neighborhood of India, again to the U.S. for a dialog with the Indigenous Narragansett neighborhood in Rhode Island, and extra. 

Every episode delves into the center of why we’re having these conversations within the first place: What can we find out about a spot after we discover the histories of those that as soon as lived there, and reside there nonetheless?

So, go forward, toss in your headphones, and keep tuned for brand spanking new episodes every week, with our first episode premiering Could 21 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Player FM, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and in all places podcasts can be found.