Wednesday, January 12, 2011

El Tigre


Last weekend, we had an excursion to El Tigre, a town in Argentina.  The town is located on the Paraña Delta and it is named after the jaguars that used to reside there.  We took a tour down the Delta to get a taste of the local lackadaisical life on the river.  It was wonderful.  There are lovely little cabanas along the river, each complete with their own dock and name for their house.  When the residents receive mail, the letters must be addressed to the name of the house. 
One of the Names of the Houses


Transportation is solely provided by boats.  There are taxi-boats, mail-boats, school-boats, and even grocery store boats.  If you need groceries, you leave a white flag out on your dock so that the boat knows to stop at your house.  A fact that I found extremely interesting, imagine shopping for your groceries on a boat in the middle of a river.  It's a very different life-style.
Life on the river is simple. It is a place where many people go for vacation and/or retirement.  Our tour guide said that houses are very inexpensive, but that maintenance is very expensive.


Grocery Store Boat

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