The Americas, two vast continents coated with the ruins of ages gone by.

From the sweltering marshes of the Mississippi, across the plains of Mexico, amidst the rainforests of the Amazon, to the highest peaks of the Andes.

Storyed and advanced ancient civilizations once called these lands home, with roots firmly

embedded deep in the mists of time, many thousands of years ago, with the likes of the

pyramid building Norte Chico of the Peruvian

coastline, and the mysterious Olmecs of the Mexican lowlands.

Until the arrival of European disease in the 16th century, city building agricultural societies with rich, intricate

world views held sway.

Philosopher Kings of the Maya, vast cities of the Meshika Aztecs, home to hundreds of thousands,

and their neighbours locked in bitter eternal war.

Mysterious Nazca of the coastal deserts, gold-rich metal workers of modern-day Colombia,

and of course, empire-building Inca of the Peruvian Mountains.

But what about the cultures that thrived in areas so remote, so untouched,

that we barely know anything of their existence today?

The Amazon is one example.

Legends of lost cities in the forest, along with endemic, domesticated trees and plants,

suggesting a landscape once entirely molded and managed by human hands.

Now almost entirely gone due to the acidic properties of the forest.

But this isn't the only pristine rainforest found on the two continents.

There is another place, even more remote and untouched, almost entirely unpopulated by humans.

This is Mosquitia in eastern Honduras, 32,000 square miles of rainforest, broken up by mountain, lagoon, rivers and

swamps, located right on the ecological hotspot of the equator, one of the last unexplored

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