tigre
The History
Tigre is a town close to Buenos Aires, and the access point to heaven on earth: the Tigre Delta.
In this area, the Parana and Uruguay rivers merge creating an area of thousands of small islands of muddy, warm water and lush greenery. This has been the choosen place to swim, kayak and connect to nature of the porteñes since the mid 1800s, when Sarmiento, a statesman, started promoting the area.
The islands are home to many vacation homes, but there's also a population of islanders who live extremely different lives to those in the city!
Today the town of Tigre has some beautiful rowing clubs and museums from the late 1800s, the only amusement park in the country and a market for wicker goods and furniture.
Still, nothing beats going to the port, taking a water-cab or the colectiva and getting lost in the maze of the islands.
Don't miss...
- Go to the islands. If you go to Tigre and don't visit the islands, you lost the best part of the experience!
- You can take a water-cab or lancha colectiva to visit retreats, Airbnbs, museums, restaurants and sports clubs. Once in Tigre, you can opt to chill eating an asado or take the active road and try some windsurf, or other aquatic sports.
- In the Tigre town, be sure to take a stroll down Paseo Victorica all the way into the Tigre Art Museum, a spectacular building used by the upper echelons of Argentine society for their balls and gambling in the early 1900s.
- Feeling warm? You can always cool down and have fun at Aquafan, the only waterpark in the area
Take in the beauty of the Delta
If Buenos Aires is all hustle and bustle, then Tigre is the closest place for locals to reconnect with nature and to remember what a slow-paced life looks like.
In these rivers you'll find all kinds of birds like tinamous, herons, ibis, storks, spinetails, plovers, cuckoos and seedeaters.
The warmth of the rivers from October and all the way into April invites you to join the dorados, pacúes and surubíes and swim in the canals. If the muddy water is too much, you can always glide above water with a kayak or canoe and explore uninhabited parts of the islands.
Nothing beat a warm evening of drinking mates while the fire for the asado starts roaring, and heading to the dock of your cabin to sip on your mates hearing the birds and the quiet sounds of the river flowing.