Tigre Travel and Tourism Guide

The town of Tigre is about a 45-minute rickety train ride north of Buenos Aires along the Río de la Plata. It sits on the edge of the Tigre delta where the Río Paraná spills into the estuary of the Río de la Plata. It's a very pretty town, but many people live in the delta itself, where every house has a little dock with a boat, since the many delta channels are basically the only means of transportation. It makes for a nice day trip from the city.

My day trip to Tigre this weekend was somewhat surprising. We took what we thought would be a tourist type boat tour of the delta and river, but it ended up being a basic form of public transportation to take people to and from home. I enjoyed the experience though, because I feel I got to see how many people in Tigre actually live. I was immediately reminded of Venice, Italy though. Italy also has a public transportation system that is basically a bus on the waterways. The difference in qual...