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Lalibela Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lalibela, Ethiopia
Adventures in Flight III
This is a top pick! Waiting...We were told to be at the Lalibela airport 2 hours before our flight, only to find that it was delayed 1/2 hr. Since this is the only flight of the day, there's no reason to rush, right? More realistically, it was delayed 45 min or ...
To Lalibela
This is a top pick! ... . Tchat is a plant - the leaves are chewed into a paste and have an amphetamine-like effect. Our driver does runs across Ethiopia with his cargo and drives non-stop, surviving on tchat and very little else. He also had a cassette collection, which he ...
Churches of Lalibela
This is a top pick! ... . Sometimes I think religion is only what people take from it, they discard the rest, discard what doesn't suit them. I mean, the big Lalibela cross is meant to be very holy, handed down from God himself. But it's ok to photograph it for a bit of ...
Lovely Lalibela
This is a top pick! Lalibela, Lalibela - one of the 8th wonders of the world. Filled with churches carved out of rock. These buildings are not erected from the bottom up, but carved from the top down. Many are even carved our of a single piece of ...
Meeting Friends
This is a top pick! ... at the level of education! This man apparently has a brother who is living in Canada. He to wanted to welcome us to Ethiopia and have us to his home for coffee. After much convincing (2 was just too much) we agreed to see his home and ...
Churches Rock!
This is a top pick! Lalibela, Ethiopia. Lalibela is an incredible site and sight. The valley itself is quite small, and with the exception of one or two paved roads, most of the lanes are rocky, treacherous paths, unlit at night, and crowed with shack-like houses. The ...
"Bus"-ting My Ass
This is a top pick! ... with the hindsight of the horror to come in northern Kenya, I grow almost misty eyed at the simple, bone shattering rattle of Ethiopia's roads - like the missed caress of a lover's touch.) The up and back from Lalibela did inspire me to come up with ...
Mule ride up to the monasteries
This is a top pick! ... was steep and occasionally we needed to get off and walk. As we ascended we were rewarded with views over Lalibela and the surrounding countryside. I was enjoying it, despite having appalling mule-control and riding skills. Then I banged ...
Hot bus ride to Dese
This is a top pick! ... is a very garlicky mush of injera and tomatoes. - Kocho is the grey stodgy slices that are an important staple in southwest Ethiopia. We were served it with kitfo. But, back to Dese. The rest of the afternoon was spent wandering around sorting ...
Unforgetable Sights Of Lalibela And NO LUGGAGE!
This is a top pick! ... . Why Ethiopia? Why Lalibela? Lalibela is the home to some amazing historic Christian churches dating from the 10Th century. Ethiopia's King Lalibela wanted to create a new Jerusalem as Jerusalem had been taken by the Muslims and so he set out to create ...
Move Over, Petra
... for miles for only dollars a day, traditional "tukol" houses, lots of shepherds, etc. You could easily spend days in Lalibela, visiting the various churches located within the town and then a few others outside of it, but unfortunately we only had ...
Lalibela's Churches
We saw many of the great churches in Lalibela. There are 11 main churches that are are located in the heart of the city. One 200 birr ticket grants you access to all of them. With the help of our amazing guide, Mario, we were able to visit ...
Lalibela adventures
Iain - We got to see amazing churches cut out of a single piece of rock hundreds of years ago. There were six churches in the first group and once I got home I got to see the Milky Way because there is very little light pollution and Africa is a great ...
New Jerusalem
... as Bet Giyorgis, the rock-hewn cathedral of St. George. It's hard to describe the magnitude of the churches of Lalibela. Imagine standing on a mountain with solid rock beneath your feet. Then, use nothing but a hammer and chisel to ...
Visiting a school in lalibela
... to the principal we went to observe two kindergarten classrooms, a new addition to the school funded through a charitable organization named Plan Ethiopia. Being able to see an age group I am so familiar with in such a different setting was so ...
The rock churches
... was the most renowned in about 1210 AD. King Lalibela moved the center of the Ethiopian empire to Roha, later renamed Lalibela. The King commissioned the construction of 13 churches which are carved out of solid rock and connected by a maze of ...
TESFA Community Trekking
... work, however, because our necks, faces, and the backs of our hands got fried. The hike itself was amazing. 90% of Ethiopia’s population are subsistence farmers and we got to see this lifestyle up close. It was a very unique opportunity to interact ...
Doe, a deer, a female deer
... you coming to Africa? :) - I love the Ethiopian movies and music clips that they show in the bus for 10 hours...NOT!, - Ethiopia is a fantastic country, with amazing people, but to backpack alone, it would maybe be a bit lonely cause at most of the ...
Lost in Lalibela's Labyrinth
... draw foreign tourists and TV producers worldwide (there is a Canadian team from Quebec here now filming a children's show), Lalibela is the centre of pilgrimage for many Ethiopian Orthodox Christians and during major festivals, this place is swarming. ...
Mekele
... renegade Arabs) on Ethiopian soil, so these potential sins are no doubt looked over. Anyway, why the eleventh? Quickly and simply Ethiopia has thirteen months. 12 months of thirty days, and the last month catching all of the extra days in the 365 day ...
A hot shower, what more could a girl ask for?
... shower feel so good? I don't know, but it certainly does. Start: Harego Lodge, Kombolcha, ETH. 09:30 End: Roha Hotel, Lalibela, ETH. 17:30 Distance Traveled: 310 km Road Conditions: lots of detours, traffic, construction, but for the last 14 km, ...
Thousand year old stone churches
... of rock that hasn't been built in sections of cemented together! Incredible! We also visited the weekly market that the town of Lalibela hosts, with all kinds of local produce and wears sold. Most people walk a full day to the market to trade their goods ...
Addis exodus
... a car with missing headlights. Our highest point passed today was 3800 metres! There is plenty of deforestation. And yet Ethiopia is still quite green and fertile. People dress differently here, many more head scarves are worn by women, men are ...
Day 34 - Lalibela
... : Forward Looking Falls: 2 Broken Frames: 1 So I was planning on going to Axum, right in the north of Ethiopia, and skipping Lalibela, over to the east. However the consensus amongst fellow travellers was that Axum was missable and had terrible ...
Lalibela
... . We wandered through the stalls snapping off photos from the hip, trying to capture candid shots. The thing that makes Lalibela most famous, even a pilgrimage site for many, is its series of rock-hewn churches from the 12th-13th centuries. Twelve of ...
In awe of King Lalibela’s New Jerusalem
After yet another spectacular scenic flight over the arid mountain ranges of Northern Ethiopia, we arrived in Lalibela in the late morning. We hopped on the shuttle with several other tourists for the hour long ride into town. Upon arrival at the Mountain ...
Gonder to Lalibela and around
Day 31 Once again we were up relatively early for our trip to Lalibela, another once capital of Ethiopia. The roads were initially pretty good, the problem that arose was that at no time what so ever is there a gap between villages and the road in ...
Lalibela and the Rock-Hewn Churches
... the region. In the 12th century King Lalibela had a vision of Jerusalem and an angel commanded him to build Jerusalem in Ethiopia. Thus started an incredibly industrious time in which huge churches were carved into and out of solid rock. In Lalibela ...
Strange Town with a Hotel
Yeah off on the road again.. stopped in this town and found a nice place to camp for the night. Great place good food and it was quiet until the Muslim call for morning prayer started at 4:00am right next ...