The Tigre Delta

Not far away from Buenos Aires city a beautiful water scenery takes place: the rivers of Tigre-a small town just about 30 minutes away from the centre. The paradox thing is that you feel so far way at this place, as if you were in the middle of land surounded by nature even though the big city's not waiting far away from you.

The Tigre Delta is the place where many rivers run out from the big river "Paraná" which flows right from the Iguazú falls.

On the weekend, my hostfamily and me met their really nice friends and drove with their motorboat deeper and deeper over the rivers. I had so much fun on the boat because the friend drove so fast, the wind almost blew me away and the boat was going up and down.

Passing beautiful landscape with stunning trees and the endless water, I felt again, like so many times before, astonished by the pure beauty of nature. While crossing many houses placed near the shores to the river, always with a small bridge in front of it, my hostmother told me some things about this place.

The rivers were not very crowded at that time because winter is starting but, regarding my hostmother, in summer its full of boats and people in canoes.
Another important thing I noticed was the change of the air-it was fresh and appeard much cleaner to me than in the big city.

Along the river, apart from private houses, there existed restaurants, cafés and supermarkets as well-everything being reached by boat of course. Even a boat, crossing the rivers up and down the whole day, selled petrol and other important things like food. A taxi boat was also shipping people from one point to the other.

Arrived at the property of Martin, the father of the other family, a beautiful place expected us:. A cute house with two fireplaces, rooms for everyone to sleep in and a great view over the enormous garden planted with natural orange and manderine trees, palmtrees and other trees already colored in yellow and red because of autumn.

In the evening I ate a "Milanesa de berenjena"-like a german schnitzel only with aubergines, tomatoes and mozzarela. Really yummy!

The following and last day of my trip to tigre, we again drove by boat to the grand "Río Pananá", listened to some good argentine music and just enjoying, luckily, the good weather. As we returned back to the house, we made a barbecue-asado-the most tipical thing a "portenño" is doing on sundays. Apart from meat, they grilled potatoes, aubergines, pumpkins and paprika with eggs.

The few hours that were left untli we would return back to Buenos Aires, we spent our time on the shore, relaxing or reading and after the afternoon tea -"merenda"- we started packing the things on the boat...

2 weeks left of my argentinian exchange!



the "asado" house



driving fast with the boat...



relaxing on the beach...



friends & family <3

San Telmo & Plaza de Mayo

A trip before the Iguazu adventure, our german group went to the oldest "barrio"(district) of Buenos Aires. Its called "San Telmo" and is pretty popular to tourists. Its located very central and near the obelisc and famous "plaza de Mayo".

San Telmo is also the district of tango and I was so happy watching a pair dancing tango to great music in the middle of a plaza.

You could notice that it was old: the buildings werent that tall and there even existed an old market hall full of antiquitatic shops & fruit and vegetable stands.










the old marekt hall







a shop full of old stuff



a beautiful church we walked by



la pareja baila tangooo

On our way back to the "subte"-the subway-we crossed the famous square "plaza de mayo" with a great view to the most popular sign of Buenos Aires: el obelisco.



there it is!

The Iguazu Falls

Wow, what a week Ive just been through. I must say, what Ive seen there was one of the most stunning things Ive eber seen in my short life so far. What im talking about are the gigantic waterfalls called "Cataratas de Iguazu" on the boarder to Brazil and Paraguay but mostly located here in Argentina.



my great friend and me





in the bus



Half of the group of the germans took the bus to drive there cause it was a lot cheaper. After an 18 hour during drive through the landscape of the "campo" of Argentina you could saw nothing but nature and some small villages. When we woke up in the morning the landscape had changed and a view over red roads expected us. The trees and forests around us got deeper and you could see many palmtrees and other interesting things such as seas and never ending roads.

At 3 pm we finally arrived in the small town called "Puerto de Iguazu"-a town full of hostels and hotels

and mostly touristic agencies.



Iguazu Falls Hostel



Our hostel was a sweet little place with a pool and just really nice. We met some nice people there from all over the world, cooked together and swimmed in the pool. The only thing that bothered us was the fact that eating outside was extremely expensive compared to the prices in Buenos Aires. A normal sandwich costed about 45 pesos (about 8$US or 6 euros!!) so we directly decided after the first day to cook for ourselves.

The rest of our first day we spent hanging out at the pool and walking in the evening to the port of Iguazu. A silent place full of peace and harmony. 

Our next day began early with a great breakfast (we only paid about 10$US dollar a night and even got a breakfast!) with one medialuna(croissant) and some bred with marmelade. Then the bus of our booked tour came and our adventure began.

Just after half an hour of driving we arrived at the nationalpark of Iguazu. There we walked just about 20 minutes, took a train that drove us through the forest until we arrived at our first point. From there we walked over some rivers, through the jungle until we got to the most popular and biggest waterfall "Gigante del diablo". You got wet all over your body and could barely speak because of the loud noise the waterfalls made. My mouth just stood open and I couldnt say any word. Never saw such a beautiful and immense thing in my life.



on our way...



oh you can already hear the waterfall!



Then we went back and started walking another rail to see the rest of the waterfalls. We walked even over them and sometimes i was so near them I could literally FEEL their energy and power. Surrounded by amazing nature, water, sun, trees (I could list a thousand of things) I felt like in paradise.

In the middle of the waterfalls was a little island (Isla de San Martin) and with a boat we drove there and relaxed at the beach. most amazing beach !!

there the island!



taken by a friend

Because I didnt have more batterie I took much better fotos from the brazilian side. Because the next day we drove to Bazil! Im very proud Ive already been there now. There you had a much better view over the whole waterfalls but in Argentina wou were like inside everything. Hearing portuguez was funny after hearing spanish the whole time but luckily everybody understood you when you spoke spanish whith them.



brazilian boarder







wooow!



the wind is blowing me away!





weird looking animals stealing food all the time



i could post hundred of photos of the waterfalls

Our last day we made a trip into the jungle! In the morning we drove with a huge jeep through the forest, deeper and deeper. It was called canoping and we climbed and drove with a rip over the trees. I will add some fotos in the future. This experience was the perfect ending of an unforgattable experience here in America del Sur. I recommend everyone in the world who is reading this: its worth the money visiting this place. I call it a once in a lifetime experience :)

Now just one months of my argentinian adventure is left and than Its alreday time to get home...



our group <3