Delta tourist info

Hotels 1*: Fundación Agustín García - Location: Tigre city - continent, just 6 blocks ahead from train station - Av. Liniers 1547. Telefax: 4749-0140. Email: fundaciongarcia@infovia.com.ar

Very cheap, clean and good hotel for just U$S 20 dollars the night per double bedroom with private bathroom and all the services.

You can have your breakfast (included) in the big saloon with TV and a good garden view.

You can also arrange for having lunch or dinners (4 to 7 U$S depends on what you order).

Rooms are quite good. Most rooms have their own TV, roof fans, heaters and private bathroom. You must arrange in advance because it has 21 rooms most of the time booked.

*Hotels 2: Bed & Breakfast Casona La Ruchi** - Location: Lavalle 577 - Tigre city - continent, just right in front train and boat station. Tel: 4749-2499. Web Site: www.casonalaruchi.com.ar - Email: info@casonalaruchi.com.ar This is a huge and wonderful house of the XIX century belonging to the Escauriza family.
The house is almost a living museum all decorated with things from the beginning of the past century and very well maintained. It has 6 rooms with capacity for 12 people, sharing 3 incredible bathrooms. The bed & breakfast system will allow you to move like in your own house, going in and out, any time and even having your own house key.
In the backyard it has a wonderful swimming pool only available for summer time (from November to April) and a nice garden with solarium and ¨parrilla¨, where you can make a barbecue anytime.
For U$ 35 per day for a double bedroom you get all the services including a very good breakfast that you can have in your own room or share with everybody downstairs. On the photo we were sharing breakfast with Dan and Christine from France, Eugenia from Argentina and Elida and mother from USA who was celebrating her 90 years old birthday. Congratulations!!!!
Jorge Escauriza, the owner and responsible for the "Casona la Ruchi" is a very friendly guy. He is always smiling and eager to help you in anyway. Her daughter Alejandra is the one in charge on booking and hotel administration and you can feel the best kindness from them and Dorita (the mother). So if you like to feel better than at home, here is the place to stay, a wonderful house with a lovely family caring for you.

*Cabins and Hostel 2: Bosque de Bohemia** - Location: 90 min. on boat into the Delta over Antequera river. Tel: (5411) 4728-0053 / 5053. Always open. How to get there: Interisleña boat, dock 1, daily 8, 11 am and 5 pm. Web site: www.bosquedebohemia.com.ar Email: info@bosquedebohemia.com.ar
The place is just wonderful. The area is cool and quiet with trees surrounding a beautiful house from 50 years ago all refurbished to new.
The place contains a good pool for summer time with a wooden deck as solarium. You can practice swimming, volley (there is a court right beside the pool not seen on the picture), there are wooden games for kids, ping- pong table and a gym is being built. But if you want to do nothing and relax, the place has plenty area for walking and relaxing between tiny streams and forest.
Accommodation is very comfortable. It counts with 7 double bedrooms and fees goes from 60 to 70 U$S per night with all services included (breakfast, private bathroom, satellite TV, phone, etc.).
If you plan to go with kids, there is no problem, there are rooms available with another private room with separate beds for them with all the same services (own TV with satellite TV, air condition, heaters, etc.) and you can see the river from the window.
Another way to reach is by private boats. Most locals from Buenos Aires City do it this way and if you want to, you can rent one too for coming. "Bosque de Bohemia" has its own place for parking private boats and step by to take lunch or spend a wonderful day enjoying the place.
If you plan to take lunch the cuisine is best. One chef and two cookers define an exquisite menu for all tastes. Here, on the photo, I was sharing lunch with my cousin Carlos and kids (Anahi and Nacho) tasting some good "parrillada" for them and some fry mozzarella cheese for me. Good wine, orange juice and mineral water to have a wonderful time. You can see the real forest at the back like a painting hanging on the wall.
The owners are Monica and Fernando (on the photo) and Cecilia and husband (not here). Very beautiful people with one philosophy, they will treat you as they like to be treated, so hospitality is best of the best. A very good place to come and stay

*Hostel 2: Bora Bora.** www.hosteriaborabora.com.ar If you are in couple and want to spend the day or planning to stay a few days in contact with nature and silence, the option we recomend to stay at is Bora Bora Hotel.
Located in the only neighbourhood you can visit in the islands, here you´ll find nice rooms with private bathrooms, good cooking, a small lagoon (70 mts.diam.) with boats for entertainment, and if it is hot, there is a refreshing swiming pool.
You arrive to Bora Bora Hotel by 30 min. travel on public boats, navigating through one of the most important rivers here, The Sarmiento. It is a very intimate place only for 20 people maximun, so as to keep comfort and beauty sight.
Around Bora Bora there is a 7km trekking to do called the Bigua circuit. It is one of the places at Delta where you can walk through like in a normal neighbourhood with residents houses, a school, a chapel, and an extense area of wild vegetation where the Bigua bird is seen with other species.
Rooms are of three categories, all of them nicelly decorated . For U$S 25 to U$S 75 you can spend the night and have a good dinner included. Prices are cheeper during the week.
On weekends at midday the menu is Parrilla, cooked at the open park and you can eat beside the lagoon. There is always an english speaking assistant.
For booking contact Silvia at: info@hosteriaborabora.com.ar or dial (5411) 15 5426-2685 / 4728-0930. Or visit stand No.7 at the Boat Station.

Restaurants - Parrilla (meat)

La Riviera - Location: In the Delta on Sarmiento River just 35 min. by boat from boat station, Interisleña lines - dock 1.

This is one of the very first places in opening a restaurant for tourists. It is working since 1943 with good "parrilladas" (Argentinean barbecue), pastas, pizzas and sandwiches. You can also have some coffee, beer or a tea. The area is also very nice to visit, it is called "Las tres Bocas", and cause three rivers join together. Service is very good and attendance too. Tel.: (5411) 4728-0177.

Web Site: www.la-riviera.com.ar

The place is run by Rosana Di Mecola, an Argentinean born from Italian father who came to the country many years ago, like many others. She received me at her house, a typical classic one of late XIX century, built on 1898. We arranged a one day excursion into "Bonanza" services (includes a good lunch, 30 min. canoeing, hard dry trekking, wet trekking, bird watching, photo safari and horse riding). Pretty tough but I enjoy it very much.

First we started rowing on a canoe for almost an hour, discovering very quiet places like the lake on the photo. We continued hearing the silence around us only disturbed by some bird songs from time to time. The experience was just incredible and Rosanna’s explanations were very professional. She speaks English, Italian and Spanish of course.

After that we did some trekking (6 km for dry and 2 km for wet land) till we met the horses. They were amazing, behaving like dogs, Rosana called them and they came running from far away till we reached and came close enough to touch them. Beautiful.

Later, when the afternoon was almost over, on my way home I kept to myself the experience of a wild and natural day.