Day trips around Buenos Aires

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    We are short on day trips around Buenos Aires that do not involve 4 hours in the car.

    I asked my husband to spend NYE doing a picnic in front of one of the many lagoon shown on Google Maps. We drove 90' to Manzanares only to find out it was not possible to access the river by car and it was basically a dirty road converted into a dumpster in a "low-income neighboor", to put it mildly.

    My idea was to spend the day overlooking the water and sitting on the grass, the kind of thing you can do in San Miguel del Monte, but without the drive (we were also afraid to drive south because of traffic toward "la Costa" for NYE). Do you have any recommended spot?

    I am also looking for a beach (with sand) in Tigre. Can be a paid venue. Just to have a drink with a seaside feeling without actually driving for 500+ km south.

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    Two challenging questions, serafina . Not remembering ever seeing a grain of sand in Tigre, I had a look at photos posted by spas and hotels there. If they have a slice of beach, they all seem to be hiding it.

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    Two challenging questions, serafina . Not remembering ever seeing a grain of sand in Tigre, I had a look at photos posted by spas and hotels there. If they have a slice of beach, they all seem to be hiding it.

    The real fact is:

    You cannot find beaches with sand in Tigre. All the bottom of the Parana Delta is mud, only mud.

    To find sand you must go to Uruguay, in the Rio de la Plata. Too far and complicated.

    Great offer, Northerner . These places all look nice. Your experience should help many of us.

    As Carlos says, the bottom of the Paraná delta is mud. So there’s nothing that can be done about the brown water. But artificial beaches can be installed at the water’s edge!

    Northerner , I can't thank you enough! This is exactly what I was looking for.

    I see that a ride by boat is required - do you think it is still worth it for a day trip, or do you usually spend the night there?

    In case of a day trip, how much is the admission and should be book that in advance?

    I can't wait for my hubby to be back to head there for a day!

    We have our own boat so we usually just try different places each week. Very few people realise the size and the scope of the Delta. A map I have shows over 30 schools only accessible by boat, so when you add to that the restaurants, chapels, police and prefectura stations etc etc. the Delta is itself like a city with rivers and canals instead of roads. Argentine friends of mine who I take out for day trips are quite astonished and unaware what is on their doorstep. Most have taken a short trip from Tigre in a catamaran, and think that's all there is to see.
    The picture above of Puerto la Pista is quite flattering. There is a stretch of sand, a restaurant selling OK food and some cabins, a few which seem to be fairly well equipped with air conditioning. There is nothing much to do there except sit by the water and pretend you are in the Caribbean. We usually just go, have a meal and a drink then head for home. It looks like a great place for families with small children. To moor my modest boat cost 2000 Pesos but I imagine there is no daily charge for those arriving by public boat transport.

    I am reluctant to recommend anywhere as everyone has different likes and dislikes, but I can give you our personal opinion of most places on the Delta.

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    Many years ago we did a day trip to an island on the Delta, had a bite to eat, a little too much wine and then hung about in hammocks for the rest of the day. It was a lot of fun, but the mosquitoes were horrendous. I was eaten alive!

    Mosquitoes all day or only when the sun went down?

    We rented a house for a weekend on one of the more distant small islands. Lovely jazmin grove was the only other occupant. Once we’d explored that, we retreated to the house; nursed our mosquito bites, read our books, ate some of the food we’d brought in, drank a LOT of wine, and dreaded having another 44 hours before being rescued by the public transport boat, which made that run every 2 days.

    Far better to go to one of the places Northerner has scoped out, with sunny beaches, other humans, and restaurants!

    We did a short getaway on the Delta once. The cabin's owner came to pick us up at the port of Tigre and drove us to the cabin. Since it had just rained, the water level was very high and it was not possible to explore our little island by foot (we were told there was a foot path we could walk along, but not when it is covered by the water and muddy!).

    We learned to kayak and had fun rowing in the small and quiet channel around the cabin, but when it ended up in the bigger one, I went into panic, the kayak went into the grass and the current and the speed boats passing by caused waves that almost rocked our kayak. We somehow managed to get back to the cabin, where we also had our wine, water and food. As Rice said, mosquitos went crazy as the sun went down, so we retreated into the cabin all night.

    We spent two nights there, just in time to be back home for some diarrhea due to the cabin's water.

    We shared Rice 's feeling of waiting to be rescued and brought back to civilization even before our time was over.

    Northerner 's suggestion seems less adventurous and more a match for our idea of relax in the Delta!

    Today was the last day of summer (one of the many we are having here and there before we can rightfully claim it's Fall) - a hot sun, a chilly shadow. We overslept so we changed our plans, and we had to pick a closer destination. We went to Tigre to visit the Italian rowing club.
    It was a guided tour in Spanish but we found spots available by booking in the morning for the 3:30 pm tour. The cost for the two of us was just 10,000 ARS and it lasted about 90’

    We went to a fabulous parrilla yesterday near Lujan by car which is only about an hour and a bit away, arriving early at just after midday. It's a typical roadside parrilla, very well organised and more meat than you can imagine. We ordered a choripan each, with chips to share, but in the end we had to share a choripan because they were enormous and took the other one back home with us, which I had for dinner! Charming country folk as staff and the lads at the parrilla couldn't believe that we don't have these in the UK. I really do love these roadside grills, especially when biking.

      

     

     

    While reading your post, I was wondering how you can't finish a choripan... then I saw the pictures!! They are giant choris!!!

    Roadside grills can provide the best meat. It really makes you wonder why in Capital they have fancy parrillas when it just takes a stand by the ruta to get amazing meat!

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    While reading your post, I was wondering how you can't finish a choripan... then I saw the pictures!! They are giant choris!!!

    Roadside grills can provide the best meat. It really makes you wonder why in Capital they have fancy parrillas when it just takes a stand by the ruta to get amazing meat!

    I agree and for a choripan in BA it can be twice as much for a much smaller one. These cost only $8000 each for giant sizes!

    They are a steal! I have no idea of the cost of a choripan nowadays, let alone one of that size.

    While waiting for our visit to the Italian Rowing Club, we strolled in Puerto de Frutos. It was lunchtime and the most restaurants were full. A parrilla for 2 was $55,000 in the cheapest place. A portion of fries (simple) was $13,000.