Increase of Gorilla permits from 1st of June 2012

The Rwanda Development Board has decided the following:

1 All payments made for gorilla permits before the 1st of June 2012 will be at $ 500. Full payments must have been made by 1st of June 2012, otherwise the rate of $ 750 applies. This is only valid for trekking until 31st December 2012.

2 Clients’ full names and identities must be provided at the time of full payment which is June 1st 2012 at latest in order to avoid transferability abuse.

3 Bookings and payments after June 2012 will be at $ 750.

Home to the Mountain Gorillas, Rwanda is a small landlocked republic in Equatorial Africa. It lies on the eastern rim of the Albertine Rift, a western arm of the Great Rift Valley, and the watershed between Africa’s two largest river systems: the Nile and the Congo. Much of the country’s 26,338km2 is dramatically mountainous, the highest peak being Karisimbi (4,507m), part of the volcanic Virunga chain in the northwest. The country is dominated by a central plateau made up of steep mountains and deep valleys and has therefore received his subtitle "Land of thousand hills". The average elevation of the plateau is about 1.700 m.