Tigre

Brennan, Emmo, and I went to Tigre the other weekend (3rd of April). It’s about an hour north of Buenos Aires, and it’s a bunch of islands within a river delta that can only be accessed by boat. Porteños build holiday houses on the islands, right next to the water, and go there for the weekend to fish, sail, row, and jet-ski. Others live there all year round. The water was very high when we were there. It’s a really pretty place.


People enjoying a day kayaking around some of the canals


A fisherman in one of the more natural sections of the delta

We hired a boat for about two hours, and received a fairly intensive Spanish lesson, as the tour was entirely in that language. It wasn’t too cheap though, costing 300 pesos for the two hours. The tour guide was called Fernando and he took us on a tour of some of the smaller canals. We saw floating supermarkets, plenty of nice houses, huge restaurants, a primary school for about 400 children, and lots of kayakers and rowers.


Fernando, our boat driver/tour guide

After, we returned to the town and had a fairly average, but expensive meal somewhere along the water. Then we headed to the ‘fruit market’ which doesn’t actually sell much fruit. Em bought a basket for our dirty washing which is so far doing its job very well.


One of the more eccentric houses.


Casablanca.


Another nice house, set back from the river.


A floating supermarket.


Emily!

We caught ‘el tren de la costa’ (the coastal train) back. It was a little more expensive than the public train we caught to get there, but it arrives at Olivos (just north of BA) pretty quickly. From there we transferred to the main line and headed back to the centre of town. It was a lovely day, and I want to head back to check out the theme park that’s there. It’s got roller coasters, rides, etc. And it’s cheap to enter!


You can see part of the fun park in the background.