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...La Boca It is La Boca is one of the most picturesque places due to its colorful port setting. The corrugated roof style of the houses and the customs reflect the European influence, mainly southern Italian, who arrive between 1860 and 1910. The so-called "a Piccola Italia (Little Italy) is stamped with medirerranean style, from its typical restaurants "cantinas" to its architecture. Brightly painted multicolored houses, inhabited by families, called "conventillos" give La Boca its main characteristic. La Boca has always been a working class neghborhood and in the past, people used the paint left over from ships to paint their houses. You will notice that sidewalks are elevated to prevents flooding from the Rio de la Plata. There are lots of street performances and markets to visit.     ...San Telmo ... San Telmo is one of the oldest and more traditional neighborhoods in Buenos Aires. Originally it was called Altos de San Pedro; it was later changed to San Pedro Telmo. This neighborhood was one of the more affected by the yellow fever of 1870. It had an enormous population exodus and deterioration that stopped its growth, as a result many new buildings were not constructed and all the old ones are in place. San Telmo is also the artist's quarter where Bohemians find large spaces at low rents, but it is also the site of high-density slum housing in conventillos (tenements) once built as single family housing for the capital's elite. There are many handicraft markets and antique shops. On Sundays you can visit the big antique market or enjoy some of the free live tango shows in Plaza Dorego.     ...El tigre The best day trip outside of Buenos Aires is to go to El Tigre. There you can shop, eat, take a boat ride and relax. Fifty minutes from downtown Buenos Aires, the understandably disconcerted visitor encounters a world where thoroughfares are waterways, where the general store and the ice cream vendor float to your front pier and where valet parking means handing over the keys to a guy who moors your boat while you dine. On the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires is a place called “El Tigre”. This is where the Parana and Uruguay Rivers flow into the Rio de la Plata, one of the world’s largest estuaries. These rivers drain portions of Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay, and the silt and sediment that have brought to the delta with them now make up the hundreds of islands, which are now inhabited. There are no roads on the islands and residents must go to and from their homes by boat. There are supermarket boats, ice cream boats, and even pizza delivery by boat. Since a maze of rivers and canals provide sole access to the houses, beach clubs, hostels and restaurants that make up the delta region, a typical address reads: Rio Sarmiento or Rio Luján or Rio Carapachay. Because of frequent flooding, the houses--some lovely, some eccentric--rest on stilts. In February, river waters lap well up onto lush green lawns where large, pinkish hydrangeas bloom.