Tigre seems like a giant recreational park for Buenos Aires. It is located in the delta of river Paraná - which occupies a huge area crisscrossed by many small rivers all flowing into Paraná at some point. This produces a score of small islands accessible only by boat.
I joined a one-hour boat trip passing through a small part of the delta. It seemed like a trip through a vacation brochure - the shores of the rivers are populated by small weekend homes, each with its own pier, located on small green lots. As it was Saturday, there were people on many of the lots, and the smell of barbecue was always present.
I almost felt like a spy for constantly being able to look into people's back yards ;-)
After the tour, I walked around a bit on the fruit market - which is really more of an arts & crafts fair than a fruit market. This is one of only two or three fruit stalls I saw:
The rest of the stalls had a wonderfully varied selection of items - something I had definitely missed back in Cuba where every stall just had more of the same stuff.
I joined a one-hour boat trip passing through a small part of the delta. It seemed like a trip through a vacation brochure - the shores of the rivers are populated by small weekend homes, each with its own pier, located on small green lots. As it was Saturday, there were people on many of the lots, and the smell of barbecue was always present.
I almost felt like a spy for constantly being able to look into people's back yards ;-)
After the tour, I walked around a bit on the fruit market - which is really more of an arts & crafts fair than a fruit market. This is one of only two or three fruit stalls I saw:
The rest of the stalls had a wonderfully varied selection of items - something I had definitely missed back in Cuba where every stall just had more of the same stuff.
