Mar 5 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Back to Argentina!  Actually, today Sam is just up the Rio de la Plata from Uruguay, on the south side, in the city of Buenos Aires. This is the capital of Argentina. Today Sam is on an excursion to the town of Tigre and the delta. The delta area is formed by several rivers that come together and feed into the Rio de la Plata. There are a lot of small islands in the river.  People that live on the islands do not have cars. They only have boats to get back and forth from the mainland. The islanders do not want to have roads and other “improvements” that might take away from the natural beauty of the area.

Sam rode on a boat around some of the islands as that he could see the houses. There were boats that were like a grocery store that went to the islanders, one was like a gas station, and one was a library. Many people that live in Buenos Aires and other parts of the mainland, have houses in the delta, on the islands for use on the weekends, or as vacation homes.

 

On the way back to the ship, the bus went through other areas surrounding Buenos Aires. One of the buildings Sam saw was an old English railroad station.