Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tigre y la delta
After moving to the Hostel Milonga I´ve made a few friends; some guys from Oz Tom, Tom and Andrew, a German girl living in Brazil Judith and an Isreali girl Ayana a traveller. The Auzzie guys arrived in Buenos Aires and Andrew proptly got his bag nicked, so they´ve been waiting to get his passport and other stuff sorted out before moving on to, to, well their plan seems schetchy to say the least. Lucky being auzzies they have the backup plan, plan B, which is drink beer. Ok, this is also part of plan A as well. The did have some photos that I had a look at and they looked like they had some sponsorship from Quilmes, the national beer, for product placement.
Tom, Tom and Andrew, had to wait for the red tape so they made a move for a few days to Iguazú. The hostel seemed quite without the guys so Judith, Ayana and myself decided to do some sightseeing outside of Buenos Aires. I remember talking to some guy when we were in Iguazú who was form Buenos Aires and he said go to Tigre. So Tigre it was. I didn´t have any idea what it was going to be like, but after I would put it as a must see day trip. The town of Tigre is nice with a nice harbour section on to the river, spoilt only buy the MacD. Still MacDs are always good if you need to visit the toilet. Over by the port there is a market selling all sorts of goods, from all over. We did got to the tourist information which gave us two options of what we could do in the time we had. 1. catch a catamaran around the delta for about 1 and half hours for $40 ar or 2. get the public boat to the Tres Bocas for $14 ar ida y vuelta (there and back) and you get to get out and walk around and see where people live.
Option 2 was the best and cheapest option. With the public boat you get to see the stuff that you would from the catamaran but also get to see the small water ways of places like tres bocas. You can walk all the way around the island if you have 2 hours or more, we only had just over an hour so we went for a walk by the river. We even bought some of the local honey from a house on the way back. Honey is a welcome change to Dulce de leche, which they always serve and I´m sick of now. But the island like Buenos Aires does have its share of mosquitos, and I already had quite a few bites that were itching, and I didn´t want to get anymore. Take repelent!
It was time to go back and after catching bus 60 on the way there we went for the train on the way back to Retiro and then the Subte to the hostel. Again thinking about the prices of taking a trip here it´s cheap and this is an expensive country. Bus $1.60, Boat $14, Train $? (but cheap) and Subte $0.90. All that would possibly get you a one trip card for the London Underground if you don`t have a Oyster.
Tom, Tom and Andrew, had to wait for the red tape so they made a move for a few days to Iguazú. The hostel seemed quite without the guys so Judith, Ayana and myself decided to do some sightseeing outside of Buenos Aires. I remember talking to some guy when we were in Iguazú who was form Buenos Aires and he said go to Tigre. So Tigre it was. I didn´t have any idea what it was going to be like, but after I would put it as a must see day trip. The town of Tigre is nice with a nice harbour section on to the river, spoilt only buy the MacD. Still MacDs are always good if you need to visit the toilet. Over by the port there is a market selling all sorts of goods, from all over. We did got to the tourist information which gave us two options of what we could do in the time we had. 1. catch a catamaran around the delta for about 1 and half hours for $40 ar or 2. get the public boat to the Tres Bocas for $14 ar ida y vuelta (there and back) and you get to get out and walk around and see where people live.
Option 2 was the best and cheapest option. With the public boat you get to see the stuff that you would from the catamaran but also get to see the small water ways of places like tres bocas. You can walk all the way around the island if you have 2 hours or more, we only had just over an hour so we went for a walk by the river. We even bought some of the local honey from a house on the way back. Honey is a welcome change to Dulce de leche, which they always serve and I´m sick of now. But the island like Buenos Aires does have its share of mosquitos, and I already had quite a few bites that were itching, and I didn´t want to get anymore. Take repelent!
It was time to go back and after catching bus 60 on the way there we went for the train on the way back to Retiro and then the Subte to the hostel. Again thinking about the prices of taking a trip here it´s cheap and this is an expensive country. Bus $1.60, Boat $14, Train $? (but cheap) and Subte $0.90. All that would possibly get you a one trip card for the London Underground if you don`t have a Oyster.
