Podcasts Culture Whiskey and a Map: Stories of Adventure and Exploration as told by those who lived them. Alex Chionetti. Explorations in the Andes mountains and Amazon jungle, lost Inca cities and the mysterious Tayos Caves.

Alex Chionetti. Explorations in the Andes mountains and Amazon jungle, lost Inca cities and the mysterious Tayos Caves.

Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 11 p.m.

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Alex Chionetti is a renowned South American explorer, film-maker and writer.\\xa0 He was awarded the Explorer's Medal from the Andean Explorer Foundation for his explorations in the Andes and Amazon jungles.\\xa0 Alex is best known for his expeditions to the cave of the Tayos.

In this interview, Alex shares experiences from his expeditions and the fellow explorers he's befriended along the way.\\xa0 Finding lost Inca cities with underground crypts holding human skeletons with elongated skull, filming man made structures deep inside caves, to escaping kidnapping and surviving attacks of spears and poisoned darts.\\xa0 Then there is his initiation in the Cuevas Las Brujas (cave of the witches).\\xa0 Alex has spent his life trying to uncover man's lost history.\\xa0

Get Alex's book Mysteries of the Tayos Caves here.

Follow Alex Chionetti via his Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/alex.chionetti1

Hosted by Michael J. Reinhart\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0MichaelJReinhart.com

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