“There is no other place that has an archipelago of  green islands that disappear on its slow and still waters”, thought prestigious and well known writer, Jorge Luis Borges about the unequalled beauty of Tigre area, where the green colour dresses its landscape and mutates into a variety of ocher and intense red colors as autumm comes.

HARBOUR
Around the harbour, tourism, nautical sports and leisure activities become the main attractions, special to enjoy a microclimate with fresh air, and an intense sensation of relaxation. The Harbour from where speed boats and vessels leave, as Cacciola company, a well known company that offers a variety of services, among which is the excursión to  Isla Martín García, to spend two days and one evening, or the international excursion to Carmelo, in Uruguay for example, or Catamaranes Interisleña, that travels along the Delta, for 2 hours, and has an excellent gastronomy on the vessel.

The most traditional rowing clubs have their head offices in Tigre, among several dry sail areas too,such as the Nahuel Rowing Club, from where every day leaves a half day excursión and a full day service to practice rowing or kayac, services provided by Puro Remo company, responsible to provide the rowing boats and kayacs to practice this versatile sportTo advance into the enchanted channels turns to be pleasant for our senses, because allows us to enjoy both the landscape and the diversity of bird species. Looks like paradise. When President Sarmiento first visited the Delta in 1855, he was not our president yet, but discovered this wonderful place and became responsible for its development. Regular visitor to this area, built a modest wooden house, that today we can see surrounded by a glass box, alter sailing an tour fron the harbour.

VARIETY OF OFFERS
One of the most interesting proposals is to spend at least one evening in Tigre.
Hotels, hostels, bungalows, among other type of accomodation are located here and besides rivers and channels, such as “Cabañas del Espera”  a piece of paradise on the Delta of the Paraná River, built for the people who enjoy high quality life, and “Solares de la Bahía” on the Sarmiento river, 20´ from the train station, two storey cottages that have a wonderful view of the river and its private beach.One of the best options would be to visit the Mate Museum, the one and only museum dedicated to this characteristic object, a complete variety of traditional mates, straws, kettles, and vases. A museum that gathers together our cultural heritage. Another option might be to visit Casino TRILENIUM, that has an amount of different activities such as shows, restaurants, Disco, promotions and obviously the traditional 1500 slot machines.
Parque de la Costa, offers a great variety of games and passports to spend a full day on this amusement park, becoming one of the places children like most. For those people who Would like to see more than the Historic Core, we reccomend to go to the traditional Tigre Hotel, an outstanding residence, of french architecture that nowadays works as the Tigre Museom of Art.
As a different option from what usually offers Tigre, La Real has an excellent proposal on active tourism. Located just 15 minutes on public transportation,  where the Carapachay river meets the Gallo Fiambre stream. The owners of this house open its door for you to enjoy the plenitude of nature, on this astonishing and colorful area, with a variety of proposals such as island trekkings, island Photo safari, boat trips, full board accomodation, beyond the possibility of visiting the Paraná river as well. One of the three companies in charge of the transfers around the Delta is Jilguero, located at Tigre harbour, stand nº 8, access nº 2. Jilguero has wooden public boats, considerably significative since its appearance for the development of the islands, that achieve a social function and has specific shipping lanes, that works as an ordinary public transportation, with capacity for 70 people, allowing locals and tourists to move around the area, sailing only Tigre, Carapachay and Luján rivers.

ARTISANS FAIR AND FRUITS MARKET
This part of Tigre has a harbour too, this is the place where the locals used to trade the supplies, foodstuff, and merchandise produced on the islands. Nowadays among the traditional products, you may find whatever you can imagine, such as food, clothes, plants, furniture made of wicker or jute, and more. 
Opens every day from 10 am until 7 pm. The gastronomy is good, but we specially recommend IL Novo María del Luján restaurant located at the nº 611 of Paseo Victorica , facing the river, a beautiful place that has its own pier, an excellent cuisine and an outstanding view .  On the Delta, you must visit Paso del Toro, 30 minutes away from Tigre harbour, you will find a place to spend the day, with games for children, a little sand beach, and  good cuisine.
... As we once read on the Pirelli guide, “...Tigre is an enormous and lovely aquatic country club. Cars and streets dissapear between a complex chain of channels and different means of sailing transport.