The Lost Cities of the Amazon

The Lost Cities of the Amazon

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S2 E13: For 500 years, explorers have been searching the Amazon for traces of its fabled lost cities. Now, host Josh Bernstein searches for the most famous of them all. Following in the footsteps of explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, Josh treks through thickly overgrown regions of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of the legendary "Lost City of Z". Along the way, he braves piranha-infested rivers, hacks through virgin jungle, and comes to terms with massive regions of deforestation. Finally, he joins up with the Kuikuro tribe. This warrior people takes him to investigate the archaeological remains of a huge forgotten city. Could it be the "Lost City of Z"? Josh learns ancient hunting, fishing, and horticultural techniques that allowed the tribes' ancestors to flourish long before European contact, the very skills which may be the key to the rain forest's future.