In regards to worrying about swimming, outside of cities, there were almost always children playing and women doing laundry in any river or larger body of water I would pass.
Lastly. Bring candy fornthe kiddos up high in the Andes. The expect it and come running!
In South America i started in Bogota and worked South to Lima. Columbia is amazing and my favorite country. So much love.
Camping is different as your much higher. I was wet alot. But less bugs and pests.
Still, I always found a safe comfortable place wo much issue.
Hitching is tough...
I did 3 months each in consecutive years. All of CA except Panama and in SA i did Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.
Unless you have 6 months or more, break up the trips. Theres a ton to do.
For central,
I started in Tulum and worked my way down to Costa Rico. Pretty much exclusively camped except...
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