Biography
Cristobal Cal, a Kek’chi Maya, was born and brought up in the village of Big Falls, in Toledo District in southern Belize where he still lives with his wife Anita. Together they have ten children five of whom are still at home.
He graduated from primary school at the age of fourteen and then worked in a variety of jobs from a field hand to teacher to machine maintenance. He began work at The Lodge at Big Falls as facilities manager when it opened in 2003.
This was his introduction to the tourism industry. In 2012 when the opportunity arose to develop a small cultural business he jumped at the chance to develop his ideas to present and preserve the Kek’chi way of life. The Living Maya Experience is the result of those efforts