Living Legacies’ Returns for Season 2

Travel + Leisure‘s award-winning podcast, Lost Cultures: Living Legacies, is back with an all-new season filled with episodes highlighting the people who make some of our favorite travel destinations so special and culturally rich. 

Hosted by T+L’s associate editorial director, Alisha Prakash, season two takes listeners on a multi-episode trip through communities whose histories continue to shape the world today. 

Last season, we heard from cultural experts in New York City’s Lower East Side, once the epicenter of immigrant America, and Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, where the Maya still preserve millennia‑old rituals. We ventured to Egypt to learn more about the Nubians, traveled to Louisiana for a bit of Creole backstory, met the mysterious “painted people” known as the Picts—a once-prominent tribe in Scotland that nearly disappeared from history books—shared a conversation with the Taino people of the Caribbean, and sailed to the remote Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) to discover how islanders carry their ancestors’ legacy forward. Each episode features engaging conversations with archaeologists, chefs, artists, and local stewards who are working hard to ensure their cultures live on forever. 

We’re expanding our reach in season two, spotlighting more celebrated and little-known cultures. First stop: Bermuda.

“Bermuda’s living legacy is its people. I think we are pretty special,” Dr. Kristy Warren, a Bermudian and professor at the University of Lincoln in England, shares in the episode. “There aren’t many of us in the world, and we seem to be able to punch above our weight. We show up in all sorts of areas of life and across the world.” 

From there, we set our sights on Hawaii to meet the Kānaka Maoli, the ultimate ocean navigators, then on to Norway, where the Indigenous Sami await. Then, it’s off to Asia to explore the Baghdadi Jewish community of India, back to the U.S. for a conversation with the Indigenous Narragansett community in Rhode Island, and more. 

Each episode delves into the heart of why we’re having these conversations in the first place: What can we learn about a place when we explore the histories of those who once lived there, and live there still?

So, go ahead, toss on your headphones, and stay tuned for new episodes each week, with our first episode premiering May 21 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Player FM, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and everywhere podcasts are available.