All guests that stay at Lalibela pay a conservation levy per night stayed and all of these funds are ringfenced and paid over to the Lalibela Foundation. The Lalibela Foundation [...]
South Africans treasure their diverse cultural heritage and we are only too happy to share it with our guests. We recently welcomed guests from Ethiopia who were treated to a [...]
Last Friday we celebrated Valentine's Day by surprising our guests with cookies baked and decorated by the children of our local community. They also made and decorated the [...]
Valentine's Day is possibly one of the most controversial special days - for some it's a Hallmark day - a marketing ploy to sell chocolates, flowers and absolutely anything that's red [...]
Last year we wrote a blog explaining the background to our barmen’s beautiful traditional shirts. In this blog, we mentioned their current project at the time – turning old bed [...]
As we mentioned in our previous blog, Lalibela was extremely lucky to be visited by Levon Grigori Aronian, a chess Grandmaster with the 4th highest Elo rating of all time [...]
Lalibela is excited to announce that we will soon be visited by one of the world's top chess players. Levon Grigori Aronian is an Armenian chess player who, in 2014, [...]
We admit that this is a rather unusual blog title, but it is a rather heart-warming blog. As we’ve mentioned, we run a number of community outreach programmes, where we [...]
We recently took a visit out to Seven Fountains. A few kilometres down the road, Seven Fountains is a small community in the Eastern Cape where Lalibela bases our community outreach. [...]
LALIBELA IS GIVING BACK ‘Conservation for conservation sake’ is the driving force behind everything we do here at Lalibela. A part of conservation, that we believe to be crucial, is supporting [...]
