Favorite Thing: Tickets – are 100 Birr and valid for your entire stay in Lalibela. They will allow you access to all the churches in town as often as you want on as many days you are staying here. Again there is a 2 hours lunch break! The place to buy the ticket is at the ticket office near the northwest cluster, a short walk downhill from the
Seven Olives Hotel.
Guides – there are 16 officially registered guides available. They cost about 100 Birr for independent visitors or 200 Birr for a group. Its common to give a tip but its not a must. The rules of the official guides association are not allowing them to ask for a tip. Its possible to visit the churches without a guide but the advantage of a guided visit is that they can explain everything to you, show you details which might be missed and they know all the priest who are holding the keys for every church. So you don`t need to bother about finding them and last but not least all the unofficial guides will leave you in peace.
Torch – bring a torch as its quite dark inside the churches and difficult to enjoy all the details without enough light.
Low budget – travellers who can`t afford to pay 100 Birr to explore the churches but at least want to have a superficially impression of what a rock hewn church is, can visit
Beta Gyorgis. Its not possible to go down to the bottom but its still impressive to see from above
The Bradt Guide – There is a mistake in the Bradt Guide! Don´t get confused but on the map of the church clusters they are mixed up. (But beside this – its an excellent book!)
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