Note that a permit from the Ministry of Home Affairs is usually required to visit Rupununi, unless you are going with a tour operator. Check in advance if your passport is sufficient. A separate permit to visit Amerindian villages is needed from the Minister of Amerindian Affairs, office of the President in Georgetown. A small but scattered town on the Brazilian frontier, this is the service centre for the Rupununi and for trade with Brazil. A big event at Easter is the rodeo, visited by cowboys from all over the Rupununi.
Prices are about twice as high as in Georgetown.
About two and a half kilometres south of town at St Ignatius there is a Jesuit mission dating from 1911. In the nearby mountains there is good birdwatching and there are waterfalls to visit. Annai is a remote Amerindian village in the northern savannas, south of the Iwokrama Rainforest Programme. It is possible to trek over the plains to the Rupununi River, or through dense jungle to the mountains. One-two hours on foot are the villages of Kwatamang and Wowetta where Raleigh International built a Health and Community Resource Centre in 1995.