From Wikitravel

Lalibela is a city in Ethiopia that is a center of pilgrimage for much of the country.

Contents 1 Get in 2 Get around 3 See 4 Do 5 Buy 6 Eat 7 Drink 8 Sleep 9 Get out

Get in

• Lalibela is a home to an airport (ICAO code HALL, IATA HLL), Ethiopian Air lines has charter flights twice a day. The airport is mid-sized. For a tiny town like Lalibela, the airport seems over-sized.

• There is a bus servise from Addis-Ababa, and the regional capital of Dessie.

Get around

• You can rent minibuses to drive you around the city. They usually are found outside the air port. Unlike other bigger towns and cities in Ethiopia, There are NO blue and white minibuses that regularly run through the this small town. There also are few horse pulling carts.

• You can walk safely around town. (people may look at you strangley with amusment. School children may try to befriend you, and follow you around. Other than its slight irritation they are totally harmless.

See

• This rural town is known around the world for its monolithic churches, which were built during the reign of Lalibela. There are 11 churches, assembled in three groups:

• The Northern Group: Bete Medhane Alem, home to the Lalibela Cross and believed to be the largest monolithic church in the world, probably a copy of St Mary of Zion in Aksum. It is linked to Bete Maryam (possibly the oldest of the churches), Bete Golgotha (known for its arts and said to contain the tomb of King Lalibela), the Selassie Chapel and the Tomb of Adam.

• The Western Group: Bete Giyorgis, said to be the most finely executed and best preserved church.

• The Eastern Group: Bete Amanuel (possibly the former royal chapel), Bete Merkorios (which may be a former prison), Bete Abba Libanos and Bete Gabriel-Rufael (possibly a former royal palace), linked to a holy bakery.

• Farther a field lie the monastery of Ashetan Maryam and Yimrehane Kristos church (possibly eleventh century, built in the Aksumite fashion but within a cave).

• Contrary to certain spurious myths, the great rock-hewn churches of Lalibela were not built with the help of the Knights Templar; rather, they were produced solely by medieval Ethiopian civilization. However, there is controversy as to when the churches were constructed. Some scholars believe that the churches were built well before Lalibela and that Lalibela simply named them after himself

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