Tigre Delta - Day 10

We decided to take a day break from Buenos Aires and explore one of the suburbs. The original plan was to take the ferry to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, but a) the tickets were ridiculously expensive for the day (upwards of $100) and it was more of a pain to get to. So we settled on Tigre Delta which is about an hours train ride from Buenos Aires up the coast to the north.

it is a popular weekend vacation spot for Buenos Aires residents and truly feels like you are a world away from the hustle and bustle of the city. There are two options to get there - either the local train that costs about $1.50 US each or the tourist train which is upwards of $30. Of course I chose the local train, plus there was guaranteed to be some good people watching on the way.

We headed to Retiro train station and bought our tickets - all in Spanish :). And boarded the train. Thank goodness we got a seat - it was incredibly busy even midday on a weekday. The train had about 12 stops before we reached the final destination of Tigre. A multitude of people got on and off at each station - who knows where they were going.

Tigre is at the mouth of the "Rio de Plata" (River Plata for a rough translation) and has many waterways with houses on the river with some really nice scenery.

Instead of the typical tourist tour on the catamaran, we took the local water taxi (Interislenas was the name) to a port where there were some nice restaurants. I almost felt like I was in Italy on a water taxi - not quite Venice, but close! We zoomed down the waterways and admired the houses built on stilts on each side of the river. We dropped off one person here and one person there on the way down to the final destination.

We passed a resort that was exclusively for employees from the National Bank of Argentina. Vacationing with your coworkers could be fun, but completely controlled by your company might be interesting.

After being on the water taxi for an hour, we arrived at a restaurant. We originally were going to go further, but beenasthough lots of people were getting off each including locals - we decided to give it a try instead. We had a beautiful lunch on the river at El Gato Blanco. Kind of like a Peruvian version of a restaurant on Las Olas in Peru.

Back on the water taxi, we enjoyed the ride back to the port deciding which house we would buy if we won the lottery. There were actually a few for sale!

Pictures below from the water taxi ride