Argentina Pictures, Part 4: Tigre

One day I took the train from Buenos Aires out to Tigre, in the watery suburbs up the river. It's only about 1/2 hour on the train but a huge difference from the big city. Lots of islands and canals and boats boats boats everywhere.

Waiting for the train in Retiro Station:
(There are two train options to get there. One is a more scenic train up the coast (you have to start on a regular train, then switch trains partway), the other is the regular commuter train. A bunch of travel guides seem to say to save money by taking the commuter train, but they're both really cheap and the difference in price is like a dollar. Well, actually, for the scenic train there is a tourist price and a locals price, but the lady charged me the locals price :). But even with the tourist price it's not that much. And the scenic train is less crowded, goes along the water and through some nice areas, and where you transfer trains you walk through a weird connector between stations that somehow involves a long corridor full of antiques for sale. Why would you want to miss that?)

In town on the mainland, near the train station. You can get on lots of different boat buses and tour boats here:

Supplies from shopping trips in town loaded onto the roofs of the bus boats:

The marketplace, and more boats loaded with shopping:

I love this striped building:

I like this one, too. I think it is some sort of Italian Club:

 Rowing clubs:

 Tigre Art Museum:

Scenery along the canals: