Lalibela Hotel

... Lalibela residents to be very friendly, waving at us, saying "Hello" or "Salam" or "Welcome You to my hometown!" Start: Roha Hotel, Lalibela, ETH. End: Roha Hotel, Lalibela, ETH. Distance Traveled: - Road Conditions: - Temperature: hot, ...

... hard in the fields from dawn to dusk. Due to our lack of luggage we went as upmarket as you could go in Lalibela (Ghion Hotel) but this didn't guarantee even water (totally off between 12 noon and 6.00 pm use of a bucket supplied) or ...

... to the bus station. My bag strap hurts my burnt shoulder. That'll teach me, eh? The 3 of us found the direct bus to Lalibela. It was completely empty, so we found the bus going to Woldiya. We planned to get off part-way there, at a town called ...

... are the skulls and skeletons of over 10,000 pilgrims who came here to die.  The "Unique Restaurant" was a favourite in Lalibela - the cook/proprietor/cleaner had the most wonderful smile, and her food was definitely the best to be had.  Her ...

... (fixed at 40 birr/2 pounds per person) to the Asheton Hotel, where we spend about an hour feeling sick after the journey! Lalibela was not as large or touristy as expected with only a few restuarants and hotels etc. We ended up walking to St ...

... . Lalibela the second holy city after Axum. It was intended to become the new Jerusalem after the original was captured by Muslims. Lalibela is home to a set of 13 monolithic churches, which have been built in the 12-13th Century. They are grouped into ...

... sickness. Stick a bunch of them on anything that is not stationary and they will start throwing up everywhere.  We stayed in Lalibela for two nights firstly to visit the churches (a couple of photos below) and secondly to try and get a grip on the ...

... to know some of the local kids who appeared from nowhere. Dianne gave a few of them whistles! We eventually set off and arrived at Lalibela around 6.00pm Putting up the tent tonight, I felt a sense of achievement. Every time I do, it means I can. My tent ...

... us around (90%). So with our newly acquired tribe of followers we set off and covered the town in approximately 3 minutes! Lalibela is Ethiopia's most famous tourist spot, but in spite of this, is still a very small undeveloped town comprising of one ...

... in 1st gear from time to time. Luckily we had only about 300km to travel and we arrived in Lalibela around 3pm. So we settled in at the 7 Olives hotel and rewarded ourselves with a few beers. The "Official Hotel Guide" made himself known and we arranged ...

... we entered ;this 'courtyard' we could view the church from the bell-tower and in a recess above the stairs was where King Lalibela slept.  Following this passage around we climbed up to "ground level" to get an overview of the plots for where the ...

... beer, that tasted more like a student party punch than the mead it was reported to taste like).  I liked Lalibela. The next day I rose v early and left for Gonder, where I would be spending the (Ethiopian) millennium...if I got there ...

... . 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 ...

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 ...

... was an Australian couple staying in the same hotel as me in Gonder and we were on the same flight, there's no bus, to Lalibela together. So we spent a couple days checking out the sites in town.  Lalibela is best known for their rock-hewn churches. ...

... . 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 ...

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 ...

... be Ethiopia’s best-preserved Aksumite structure. Unlike the rock-hewn models of the regional capital, the monestary, which predates Lalibela’s structures by about 80 years, was built such that it sits inside a cave. Behind the church we found ...