On Sunday we also took a day trip to a suburb town called Tigre.  The trains here are heavily subsidized so the half-hour trip from BA to Tigre cost about a peso.  The current exchange rate is ~4.2 pesos to the dollar.  Yeah.

Tigre seemed like a cute little town.  We stopped to get beer, pastries, and coffee for the wifi to get the address of the river house we were going to.  Our friend was having his birthday weekend at a house that his family owns on one of the islands.  Tigre is on a large river delta that has tons of little islands and rivers flowing between them.  The islands are full of cute little houses on stilts, accessible only by boat.  The rivers are lined with docks and trees.  Strange conifers and weeping willows.  Every few hours a ferry “bus” makes a pass through the rivers but we opted for a water taxi since there were 4 of us, making it cheaper and more convenient.  There’s also a floating store that you can flag down to buy things so people don’t have to leave their island paradise for every little thing.

I would love to stay at one of these places for a few months.  Hammocks everywhere, people canoeing, rowing and swimming all along the river and enjoying everything from the little gazebos on the ends of the docks.  Martin and I went canoeing for a long time and I got a little burned on my shoulders.  But it was great fun, especially when a few boats would pass at once and the water got turbulent!  The water was the perfect temperature for swimming, too.

We stayed for about six hours and then started the journey back to the city to go to the Onda Vaga concert on the correct night.  It was a seriously full day.