Yesterday we took a train to Tigre, a small(er) town north of Greater Buenos Aires. It's on a river delta, and is a river town--the main way to travel is by boat! We got on a ferry and went up and down the river. There are the coolest colorful houses with little docks on the river, and people in kayaks paddling all over the place! Some were 60-70 year old women... just rowing their way down the stream!
Tigre is a popular weekend destination for tourists, and for locals who want to get away from the city. A lot of people have weekend houses there! It was a very quiet, peaceful town... definitely a good place relax and unwind from all the hubbub of the city! Their supermarkets are even on their own boats!
The man in the photo on the right was putting his three dogs in his boat to take with him--reminded me of Sir! :]
We stopped at this small orilla to eat lunch. Honestly it was about twenty feet long, overpriced, and besides the sky was cloudy and the water was brown... so we didn't do a whole lot there. But we had two hours to kill so we took some pictures on the dock because why not.
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| Sadly one of the less-awkward pictures we took.... |
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| Here you see me being really enrapturing and hilarious. Christa is obviously out of hearing range. |
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| View of Puerto de Frutos from the river. |
My favorite place at Tigre was the Puerto de Frutos. It's this huuuuuge market place that sells everything you can think of. Except they're not just touristy rinkydinks, they're actually pretty cool! Clothes, mate cups/straws, wooden things, metal things, home dec things, kitchen things, frames, pictures, posters, you name it. And everything was crazy cheap. We walked around for about an hour--it was so overwhelming, I wanted to buy everything! We decided to go back another day once we've seen more of what Argentina has to offer us and can make more educated purchases :]
On the way home from Tigre we stopped for meriendas at a restaurant in San Isidro, which had the coolest view of the BsAs skyline over the ocean. There was this grassy area outside, where Argentines were playing soccer, drinking mate, or laying with their significant other on a blankets. There were two guys playing Blackbird on guitars! And another guy serenading his girl... my heart was melting. It was such a cool atmosphere. And so picturesque.
...so picturesque that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a romantic picture of me and my Argentinian lover. And by that I mean "Hey Mike (from Connecticut) come sit like this and look at me lovingly for this picture." ... but shhhh no one has to know the truth. So here we see me and my Argentinian lover watching the sailboats at sunset. SO CUTE RIGHT?
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| Y Buenos Aires! Allí está! |
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