Hey guys, today I’m here from Belgrade, Serbia, from Kalemegdan Fortress which is probably the
biggest, definitely the most famous fortress in all of Serbia. Today I won't be talking about
Serbia. This is going to be more of a how-to travel video where I tell you
about things that just make travel easier for you, and today I’ll be talking about e-sims,
and e-sims from this one particular company named Holafly that I found to be a really cool company
offering a really cool service. So, in case you don't know, let's start with what exactly
is an e-sim. E-sim or an embedded sim is basically a new sort of electronic sim that you
have inside most new cell phones which removes the requirement of having physical sims that we've had
to deal with for forever basically. And makes it something that can be in your phone that you can
download into it using wi-fi and just makes life a lot easier. This part is especially important for
travelers like me, because when you're traveling a lot, you end up needing to use data in a lot of
places and you end up getting a lot of sim cards like I have on the back of my phone. But since
I’ve been using this e-sim from Holafly for the last two weeks now, it seems to solve a lot of
problems that you traditionally have dealing with sim cards when you're traveling, especially new
countries. There's a lot of advantages of having e-sims. First of all, you don't need to physically
have a sim card that you need to like poke out of your phone with the pointy thing that you need,
and have to be changing sims, and it saves you from all that hassle. You can use multiple sim
cards at the same time because your phone as you surely know is limited on how many physical sims
it can handle at the same time. And last but not least and probably the most important for me,
and for you as travelers, an e-sim is something you can set up electronically using wi-fi
without having to have access to this physical sim card. That can be tricky to get when you're
going to a new country or going to a new city even. So, I’ve talked about this a lot in a
previous video that I did about crossing land borders, but when you go into a new country,
you need a lot of things. You need a lot of apps to make life a lot easier for you. You need google
maps you need something like google translate to be able to understand what the locals are saying.
In that case, what I would typically do as you see in my videos from Nepal, Sri Lanka,
Turkey etc. is the moment I would get into a new country, I would be scrambling for the first day
or half a day to try to get to a sim card place and then I’d be getting a sim card. With an e-sim,
you can set up an e-sim before you even go to the country and the moment you go inside the country,
you automatically have data. That means you automatically have full access to google maps,
uber, google translate, whatever you may need to get around. I’ve talked
about this previously in another video too but there's one time I was traveling
in this region in the Balkans in 2018 and I was going from one country to the other. The
other country just didn't let me in because they didn't think I have the right visa. So, I ended up
crossing the border back to the previous country which is Albania. There's no cafes or anything
where I could connect to a wi-fi to figure out where to go next. My only options were to talk
with taxi drivers that were probably trying to scam me and get a lot of money out of me..
I couldn't figure out where the closest atm was it was just all together a big nightmare. I ended
up losing a full day of travel because I had to go this random town and I had to spend a night there,
because I didn't know what other hotels nearby were available, because I couldn't just google
that. And all of that, I think right now, could have been very easily avoided if I just
had an e-sim with data where I would have just connected the internet and figured everything
out and probably saved 12 hours at least of traveling on a very jam-packed trip. So, now
I want to talk in particular about Holafly, which is a company that provides e-sims and has created
these e-sims keeping travelers like you and me particularly in mind. Right now they're offering
unlimited data plans to over 45 destinations and that's a major number as far as e-sim companies
go. So, they deliver their e-sims electronically to every country in the world like they did to me
and they offer 24/7 customer support in case you're having trouble setting it up or having
any sort of issues with your e-sim whatsoever. So, when I ordered my sim from Holafly online,
I just basically got an email saying that okay I have this for 6 gigabytes for 15 days for Serbia.
All I had to do is click on it, find the QR code on it and then.. Just like scan the QR code
and that's essentially all you have to do. It takes you through the installation steps
and it takes 30 seconds. Once you do that you just basically have to do a few small steps
to set it up on your phone. Just look up the sim card manager if you're using an android.
It's equally simple if you're using an apple as well and you go there and you turn on the sim card
and then you have to go to your mobile networks and your mobile data and make sure they're
connected to your sim and voila. You get a text message saying that your s-sim is activated
and you can use the internet freely without any hassle whatsoever. Like I said before, Holafly
is offering e-sim cards to 45 destinations where they offer unlimited data and they have plans
ranging from one week for up to three months, so you can get the plan you need depending on
your travel needs and their plans prices range from as little as to like one dollar a day for
unlimited data. So, it's a pretty good deal. So, I was just checking online for the options that they
have for different countries. I found out there are plans that are valid throughout all of Europe
from plans ranging from $19 for unlimited data for five days to 90 days of unlimited data for $99.
Since I’m discussing about e-sims and all of its pros, it's probably also good to discuss
some of the ways in which it can be not so convenient for people who are used to using
physical sim cards. So, the thing about e-sims is that this is new technology so you will need
a smartphone or a phone that is compatible with e-sims, so if you have a really old phone from
like 20 years ago that's probably not going to work. But for the most part, I think all of us
have new smartphones and e-sims like Holafly's e-sim will work with almost any modern smartphone.
The other tricky thing that you might want to keep in mind is that changing an e-sim
from one phone to the other can be trickier than just simply removing a physical sim card. But this
is a problem that affects very few people because most of us like me are not using multiple devices
and switching sim cards constantly. So, this probably won't affect you either. So,
if all that sounds great to you and you think you might be interested in getting an e-sim for your
next travel or next trip to wherever you go, follow the link on the screen and that will
also be on my video description and comments, to check out Holafly's website and check out the different
plans that they offer to whatever destination you're interested in. And I’ve been talking to
them and they've also offered a special coupon code for my viewers. That's “nadironthego”. So,
if you use that coupon code, you get a five percent discount on your purchase as well. So,
make sure to check that out if you're interested in getting an e-sim. Alright that is it for this
video. I’ll be releasing more videos from Serbia and the Balkans and Eastern Europe
and maybe Turkey. Maybe. We'll see. I’ll catch you guys on the next video from wherever I am.