The Mayans - Ruins Among the Trees

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Self - Host: In the year 1695, right at the end of the 17th century, a Spanish monk fled barefoot and starving through the tropic forests of Central America. His name was Andres de Avendano y Loyola and, along with his men, he was dying of thirst and hunger. Their faces had been cut with thorns and his feet cut by pieces of flint scattered on the swampy ground. Avendano and his men had been part of a mission to the city of Tayasal, an island stronghold that was the last independent holdout of a once mighty civilization - the Maya.