Carmelo to Tigre river crossing

On the trusty advice of the Lonely Planet guide, we decided to take the crossing from Carmelo in Uruguay to Tigre in Argentina mainly because it takes you through the river delta, rather than just across open water as between Colonia and Buenos Aires.

It´s also supposed to be a much shorter journey, but that turned out to be mythical. It´s only 15 minutes slower than the slow boat to Colonia and you don´t arrive in downtown Buenos Aires, but I can definitely agree that the route down through channels of the delta is very photogenic. Carmelo, on the Uruguayan side, is a sleepy little town, full of stray dogs, whereas Tigre is the favourite weekend destination of people from Buenos Aires and is full of rowing clubs and yacht clubs.

It was worth the journey to see the delta, but also just for the change of taking a different route from the outbound journey. I want to avoid repeating myself where possible.