Visit Lalibela

21/03/2026

Travel Responsibly, come and enjoy St. Lalibela

Discover how to visit St. Lalibela, Ethiopia respectfully. Learn essential tips on dress, behaviour, local guides, and experiencing the rock-hewn churches as a living pilgrimage site.

06/01/2026

05/01/2026

Tadele Travel is taking on the challenge of preconception. We’re launching a hands-on campaign to reintroduce Ethiopia to the world, not through famine footage, but through food, memory, and truth.

Explore our latest reflection by Girma Tadele on what really happened in the 1980s, and how the narrative must shift from scarcity to sacred abundance.

The famine was engineered, amplified, and tragically advertised to serve agendas that had little to do with feeding the hungry.

10/10/2025

As promised…
Best experienced as a week-long escape naturally combined with St. Lalibela, Bugna reveals a hidden treasure of the Ethiopian highlands. This is the land of "GurGur Debre Roha" the forgotten medieval capital (920–1156 AD) and home to the very people who carved Lalibela’s iconic churches yet remained unnamed in history. After five years of research and community-led development, Tadele Travel is proud to open Bugna as a living destination where heritage isn’t curated, it’s reclaimed. Experience designers seeking depth and historical justice, this is your invitation.

Just 42 kilometres west of Lalibela, Bugna is a highland valley where faith, tradition, and memory converge. Known as the Valley of the Royal Saints, it was once the heartland of the Christian Israelite kingdom and the cradle of the Zagwe dynasty.

02/12/2023

Dear Teferi Assefa Negarit Band

We, the people of Lasta and the residents of St. Lalibela monastic town, are writing to express our disappointment with the unfortunate title you have given to one of your songs. We kindly request that you change the name of the song to "Hamina," which is the original name of the artisan featured in your music titled "Lalibela".

For your future reference, we want to clarify that the name "Lalibela" was given to the "Haminas" by the Shewan aristocratic family to tarnish the name of King Lalibela and his sacred achievements in transforming Christianity in Ethiopia. To this day, only people from Shewa refer to the Haminas as "Lalibela's", not in other places.

We are confident that you will understand our concerns and make the necessary changes as soon as possible. We appreciate your hard work in contributing beautiful pieces of art.

Despite the vocal nature of the artisan “Lalibela” culture (not the ancient city of Lalibela), Negarit Band creatively interweaves sampled freestyle vocal improvisations of the artisans' oral poetry with the basic “call-and-respond” African foundations of jazz music. "Cherota" achieves this ...

21/07/2023

Located in Lalibela, Ethiopia, the lichen-covered, crucifix-shaped Church of St. George is heralded by some as the eighth wonder of the world.

06/01/2023

እንኳን ለብረሃነ ልደቱ አደረሳችሁ - Happy Ethiopian Christmas

26/02/2022

ሆርሆር አቦ፣ የቡግና ፈረጥ። መጋቢት አቦን እዚህ ያክበሩ

19/08/2021

Save the people of Lalibela! they are left to die starving.

07/08/2021

We call on all international and national tour operators and travel agents to stand in solidarity, united against the threat posed by the Tigrayan rebels to Lalibela's security & the safety of its people.