# eSIM for Guinea Viasimo's Guinea eSIM starts at $8.00 for 1 GB over 7 days, running on Orange with 4G LTE where available. Plans last 1 to 180 days, arrive by email in minutes and install from your phone's settings, with no app. Canonical page: https://viasimo.com/destinations/guinea/ ## Guinea eSIM prices | Plan | Data | Days | Price | Price per GB | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 GB, 1 day | 2 GB | 1 | $16.00 | $8.00 | | Unlimited, 3 days | Unlimited | 3 | $42.00 | - | | Unlimited, 5 days | Unlimited | 5 | $67.00 | - | | 1 GB, 7 days | 1 GB | 7 | $8.00 | $8.00 | | Unlimited, 7 days | Unlimited | 7 | $93.00 | - | | Unlimited, 10 days | Unlimited | 10 | $134.99 | - | | 3 GB, 15 days | 3 GB | 15 | $20.99 | $7.00 | | Unlimited, 15 days | Unlimited | 15 | $194.99 | - | | 3 GB, 30 days | 3 GB | 30 | $21.99 | $7.33 | | 5 GB, 30 days | 5 GB | 30 | $33.00 | $6.60 | | 10 GB, 30 days | 10 GB | 30 | $64.99 | $6.50 | | 20 GB, 30 days | 20 GB | 30 | $124.99 | $6.25 | | Unlimited, 30 days | Unlimited | 30 | $354.99 | - | | Unlimited, 60 days | Unlimited | 60 | $704.99 | - | | Unlimited, 90 days | Unlimited | 90 | $1,059.99 | - | | Unlimited, 180 days | Unlimited | 180 | $2,114.99 | - | ## Which networks does the Guinea eSIM use? - **Orange**: 4G LTE Your eSIM picks one automatically; you do not choose or switch between them. The operator list comes from the network partner that carries this eSIM. Verified October 30, 2026. ## eSIM Details - **Data**: 1 GB – 20 GB or unlimited - **Validity**: 1–180 days - **Speed**: 4G LTE - **Hotspot / tethering**: Supported on most devices - **Activation**: Starts when you first connect in your destination - **Speed management**: Roughly 2-3 GB per day at full speed, sometimes less depending on the local carrier, then reduced - **Top-ups**: Add more data from your account, before the plan expires - **Text messages (SMS)**: Data only: use an app for verification codes - **Connects via**: United States - **Unused validity**: 180 days before it must be installed ## Guinea: what to know before you land Source: https://viasimo.com/destinations/guinea/#destination-guide · Researched October 2026 by Viasimo In Guinea our eSIM connects to Orange over 4G/LTE, and you land at Conakry's Gbessia airport (CKY) on the Kaloum peninsula. Before you go, know this: the UK government says Guinea has no public emergency services, so the most useful numbers to save are private clinics, your embassy and whoever is collecting you from the airport. ### Guinea: quick facts | Fact | Guinea | | --- | --- | | Emergency number | No public emergency service; save private clinic and embassy numbers | | Main airports | Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (Gbessia), Conakry (CKY) | | Plug types | Type C, F, K (220V) | | Currency | Guinean franc (GNF) | | Apps worth having | WhatsApp, Orange Money, Google Maps, Google Translate | ### Arriving at Gbessia, Conakry's Ahmed Sékou Touré airport (CKY) (Guinea · https://viasimo.com/destinations/guinea/#guide-arriving-at-gbessia-conakry-s-ahmed-sekou-toure-airport-cky) Conakry's international airport, officially **Ahmed Sékou Touré International** and widely called **Gbessia**, sits on the south shore of the Kaloum peninsula, a few kilometres from the downtown tip. Direct flights from Europe come from Paris with Air France, Brussels with Brussels Airlines and Istanbul with Turkish Airlines, and passengers on these flights are usually bused between the aircraft and the terminal. Most visitors need a visa. For private and business trips you apply online in advance through Guinea's e-visa portal, uploading scanned documents and a yellow fever certificate if you arrive from a risk country. You then show the **e-visa registration receipt** at the border, where the visa is issued. Keep that receipt as a saved file and a printout, as you may not have a signal or wifi in the immigration queue. The UK Foreign Office advises arranging your airport transfer in advance if you land after dark. Turn on mobile data as soon as you are off the plane so you can confirm with your driver, share your location and tell your host you have arrived. ### No national emergency line: the numbers to save before you land (Guinea · https://viasimo.com/destinations/guinea/#guide-no-national-emergency-line-the-numbers-to-save-before-you-land) One fact sets Guinea apart from most destinations. According to the UK Foreign Office, **there are no public emergency services in Guinea**, so there is no reliable number to call for an ambulance. Instead, the Foreign Office lists private clinics in Conakry for urgent medical help, including **Clinique Pasteur** and **Clinique Ambroise Paré**. Before you travel, save these in your phone and on paper: - The numbers of at least two Conakry clinics, from your embassy's latest advice. - Your embassy or consulate's emergency line. For British nationals, the FCDO lists a dedicated consular number. - Your travel insurer's 24-hour assistance line, including medical evacuation. - Your host, employer or tour operator in Guinea, plus your driver. Because our eSIM is data only, you cannot make normal phone calls on it, but you can still message and make app-based calls on WhatsApp over data. Keep your home SIM active for voice calls and texts, and check with your insurer in advance whether they can be reached by WhatsApp. ### Phones, checkpoints and photography on Guinea's roads (Guinea · https://viasimo.com/destinations/guinea/#guide-phones-checkpoints-and-photography-on-guinea-s-roads) Using your phone in Guinea needs some care. The Foreign Office reports high levels of street crime in Conakry, including mugging, pickpocketing and bag snatching, and advises keeping mobiles out of sight and not walking alone at night. Use a pre-arranged taxi when visiting a bank or changing money, and avoid moto-taxis, shared taxis and tuk-tuks. Photography is tightly restricted. Taking pictures near **military bases, checkpoints, the presidential residence, police and gendarmerie buildings, airports and bridges** can lead to arrest, and that includes a quick snap on your phone from a car window. Ask before photographing people. On the road, police and local militia run frequent checkpoints, where documents and luggage are inspected. The Foreign Office warns of armed robberies and carjackings, especially at night, on routes towards Mamou, Faranah, Kissidougou, Guéckédou, Macenta and N'zérékoré. The rainy season, from **May to October**, can flood roads and make them impassable, and fuel is not always available. Share your route and expected arrival time with someone before each long leg, as mobile coverage between towns is limited. ### Sources for the Guinea guide - [Guinea travel advice: safety and security (GOV.UK)](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/guinea/safety-and-security) - [Guinea travel advice: getting help (GOV.UK)](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/guinea/getting-help) - [Guinea travel advice: entry requirements (GOV.UK)](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/guinea/entry-requirements) - [Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_S%C3%A9kou_Tour%C3%A9_International_Airport) ## Seven days in Guinea: Conakry, the Îles de Los and the Fouta Djallon 7-day itinerary · 7 days · Source: https://viasimo.com/destinations/guinea/#itinerary An adventurous week for travellers using a reputable local operator and driver: Conakry and the beaches of the Îles de Los, then inland in daylight to the Kindia waterfalls and the cool Fouta Djallon highlands around Dalaba and Pita. **When to go:** The dry season from November to April is the only practical time to travel inland, as the July to September rains are among the heaviest in West Africa and turn roads to mud; waterfalls are fullest just after the rains, in October and November. ### Day 1 in Guinea: Conakry: Kaloum and the National Museum - **Base:** Conakry - **Getting there:** Gbessia (Ahmed Sékou Touré) airport is on the Kaloum peninsula, a short drive from downtown; arrange your transfer in advance. - **Plan:** Your pre-arranged driver meets you at Gbessia airport. After settling in, visit the National Museum at Sandervalia in the Kaloum district, which holds masks, carvings and instruments from Guinea's regions. Then see the exterior of the Grand Mosque of Conakry, one of the largest in West Africa, and the gardens around it. Keep the evening quiet, avoiding walking around after dark. - **Mobile signal:** Orange 4G works across Conakry and at the airport. Do not photograph government buildings, police or military sites, even casually from the car. ### Day 2 in Guinea: Boat to the Îles de Los - **Base:** Conakry - **Getting there:** Boats from Kaloum's port take roughly 30 to 45 minutes; check the boat's safety equipment and avoid overloaded vessels. - **Plan:** Take a boat from Kaloum out to the Îles de Los, an archipelago just off the coast. Spend the day on Roume or Kassa, swimming from sandy beaches backed by forest. On Kassa, ask about the remains of the old British trading post that operated there in the 18th century, when the islands were part of the Atlantic slave trade. Return to Conakry by mid-afternoon before the sea gets rough. - **Mobile signal:** Coverage from the mainland reaches parts of Kassa and Roume, but it is weak and can vanish on the far beaches and during the crossing. ### Day 3 in Guinea: Kindia and the Voile de la Mariée falls - **Base:** Kindia - **Getting there:** Conakry to Kindia by road, about 135 km; allow 3 to 4 hours because of the traffic out of the capital and checkpoints. Travel only in daylight. - **Plan:** Leave Conakry early to beat the traffic and drive inland to Kindia, a market town at the foot of the hills. In the afternoon visit the Voile de la Mariée, the 'Bride's Veil', a waterfall that spills down a rock face in a fine, wide curtain, with a pool below. Walk around Kindia's market and its fruit stalls before nightfall. - **Mobile signal:** Orange coverage is reasonable along much of the N1 and in Kindia town, but weak or absent at the falls. Message your contacts before leaving town. ### Day 4 in Guinea: Through Mamou to Dalaba - **Base:** Dalaba - **Getting there:** Kindia to Dalaba via Mamou, about 4 to 5 hours by road. The FCDO notes occasional hold-ups on the Mamou route, so travel in daylight, ideally in convoy, and take security advice from your operator. - **Plan:** Continue into the Fouta Djallon plateau via Mamou to Dalaba, Guinea's highest town and a former colonial hill station, noticeably cooler than the coast. In the afternoon visit the round house once lived in by the South African singer Miriam Makeba, built in the style of a traditional Fula home, and walk through the old Chevalier pine arboretum, where early 20th-century foresters planted trials of imported trees. - **Mobile signal:** Expect gaps between towns, especially on the climb into the highlands; Mamou and Dalaba have Orange 4G but it can be slow. ### Day 5 in Guinea: Pita and the Kambadaga Falls - **Base:** Dalaba - **Getting there:** Dalaba to Pita is roughly 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes by road, with the falls a further drive from town on a rougher track. - **Plan:** Drive north to Pita and on to the Kambadaga Falls, where the Kokoulo river drops over a series of rock steps into a wooded gorge; they are most powerful just after the rainy season. With a local guide, walk down towards the lower viewpoints. Return to Dalaba via the hillside villages, stopping to see the Fula farms on the plateau. - **Mobile signal:** There is usually no signal at the falls or on the track to them. Pita town has basic Orange coverage, enough for messages. ### Day 6 in Guinea: Long drive back to Conakry - **Base:** Conakry - **Getting there:** Dalaba to Conakry by road, roughly 280 km; allow 7 to 8 hours with stops and checkpoints. - **Plan:** Leave Dalaba at first light for the long return to the coast, aiming to reach Conakry well before dark, as embassy staff avoid road travel outside the Conakry region at night. Break the journey for lunch in Mamou or Kindia. If you arrive with time to spare, buy fabrics or crafts at Conakry's Marché Madina with your driver or guide, keeping your phone out of sight. - **Mobile signal:** Patchy on the plateau and between towns, steadier around Kindia and on the approach to Conakry. Share your live location with your contacts for the journey. ### Day 7 in Guinea: Conakry waterfront and departure - **Base:** Conakry - **Getting there:** Arrange your airport transfer in advance; the airport is close to the centre, but traffic can be heavy. - **Plan:** Spend a relaxed final morning in Conakry. Visit the Botanical Garden in Camayenne, laid out in colonial times, or take a short boat ride out to Île de Corail or one of the nearer islets if the sea is calm. Pack, confirm your flight, and head to Gbessia airport with plenty of time for the checks there. - **Mobile signal:** Reliable Orange 4G in central Conakry and at the airport, enough to check in online and confirm your flight. ### Staying connected on this Guinea route - Emergency services in Guinea are very limited, so save private clinics in Conakry, your embassy and your insurer's assistance line in your phone and on paper before travelling inland. - Download offline maps of the N1 from Conakry to Mamou and the Fouta Djallon before leaving the capital. - Never photograph checkpoints, bridges or official buildings, even from a moving car; it can lead to arrest. ### Sources for the Guinea itinerary - [GOV.UK foreign travel advice: Guinea, safety and security](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/guinea/safety-and-security) - [Dalaba (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalaba) - [Îles de Los (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Eles_de_Los) ## About this eSIM Guinea is a country of two very different travel experiences: Conakry, a dense coastal capital squeezed onto a narrow peninsula, and everything beyond it, which is highland, forest and savannah connected by roads that the rains rearrange every year. Data behaves accordingly. Set your expectations around a working connection in the cities and larger towns, and around a plan that survives without one everywhere else, because in the Fouta Djallon or the forest region you will spend real stretches with nothing. ### Getting online when you land Do the installation at home. Arrival at Conakry's international airport is not the moment to be troubleshooting a phone, and terminal wifi is not something to count on. Have the profile sitting on the device, switched off, before you fly. Once you are on the ground, turn the travel line on and let it search properly; give it a couple of minutes rather than deciding after twenty seconds that it has failed. Then confirm data roaming is switched on for that line individually, which is the setting people miss and the reason a phone shows bars while nothing loads. Getting connected before you leave the airport matters more here than in most places, because arranging your ride into town, confirming where you are staying and telling someone you have landed are all much easier from the arrivals hall than from a taxi in Conakry traffic. ### The networks you'll be on Your handset attaches to a local network automatically; there is nothing to select. What you should expect is a connection that varies a lot by hour and by neighbourhood rather than one that is either on or off. Peak evening congestion in Conakry is real, and a connection that handled a video call in the morning may only manage text later. Build around that. Send messages rather than making video calls when the signal is weak, let large uploads run overnight or over wifi, and keep anything you truly need saved on the device rather than in the cloud. ### Where coverage holds, and where it thins Conakry itself is the strongest ground: Kaloum at the tip of the peninsula, Dixinn, Ratoma and Matoto along the length of it, and the corridor out toward the airport. Larger regional centres such as Kindia, Labé, Kankan and Nzérékoré have service around the town centre and markets. Between them is where it thins. The road east from Conakry climbs into the Fouta Djallon, and the highlands are exactly the terrain that defeats mobile coverage: deep valleys, escarpments and scattered villages. Around Dalaba, Pita and the waterfall country, and on the walking routes near Doucki, plan on being offline for hours at a time. The same holds in the forest region toward Mount Nimba and Ziama, and across the savannah stretches of Upper Guinea between towns. The Îles de Los, a short boat ride off Conakry, are close enough to the capital to often pick something up, but treat it as luck rather than a plan. During the rainy season, generally the middle and second half of the year, poor weather and power interruptions make even urban service less predictable, and long overland journeys become longer. ### What you'll actually use data for here Communication with the people organising your trip. Drivers, guides and hosts coordinate by phone and messaging apps, and plans in Guinea move; a road closes, a departure slides, a connection is missed. Being reachable is the single most valuable thing your data does. After that it is navigation, which matters because street addressing is limited and you will often be working from landmarks and pinned locations rather than road names. Translation is another constant if your French is basic, and it gets more useful still when you are working through a third language locally. Practical lookups fill the rest: mobile money is widely used and you will be checking balances and confirming transfers, exchange rates come up daily, and you will want current information on health requirements and local conditions from official sources before and during the trip rather than relying on what you read months ago. ### Before you fly Check eSIM support and that your phone is unlocked, and install everything at home. Download offline maps of the whole country, not just Conakry, because the highland and forest routes are exactly where you will need them and exactly where you cannot download them. Save your accommodation address, your contacts' numbers and any letters of invitation or permits as screenshots and offline files. Keep copies of your passport, visa and vaccination documentation on the device and on paper. Carry a serious power bank and ideally two. Mains power is intermittent outside the main hotels, long road days offer no charging at all, and a dead phone in the Fouta Djallon is a genuine problem rather than an inconvenience. Bring cash in small denominations; cards are accepted in very few places and machines are unreliable outside the capital. Finally, tell someone at home your rough route and check in when you resurface, because gaps of a day or more without contact are normal here, not a warning sign. ## Frequently asked questions ### Does an eSIM work in Guinea? Yes. Your Guinea eSIM connects automatically the moment you arrive, with no roaming fees and nothing to set up at the airport. The host networks it can use are Orange. Coverage runs on 4G LTE. There is no 5G on our host network in Guinea yet. ### Do I get 5G in Guinea? No. Orange do not yet offer 5G to visitors in Guinea, so your eSIM connects over 4G LTE or slower. Anyone claiming 5G for this destination is quoting a spec sheet, not the network you will actually get. ### Is there an emergency number in Guinea? The UK Foreign Office says there are no public emergency services in Guinea. For urgent medical help it lists private clinics in Conakry, including Clinique Pasteur and Clinique Ambroise Paré. Save these, your embassy's emergency line and your insurer's assistance number before you fly. Our eSIM is data only, so keep your home SIM active for voice calls. ### Can I take photos with my phone in Conakry? With care. Photography is highly restricted near military bases, checkpoints, the presidential residence, police and gendarmerie headquarters, airports and bridges, and taking photos of these or other government buildings can lead to arrest. That includes casual phone snaps from a vehicle. Always ask before photographing people, and keep your phone out of sight in busy streets. ### Do I need an e-visa to enter Guinea? Most visitors need a visa. For private and business travel, you apply online in advance on Guinea's e-visa portal, uploading scanned documents and a yellow fever certificate if required. On arrival at Conakry you show the e-visa registration receipt and the visa is issued at the border. Save the receipt offline and on paper. ### Which airlines fly to Conakry from Europe? Air France flies from Paris Charles de Gaulle, Brussels Airlines from Brussels and Turkish Airlines from Istanbul to Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (CKY), also known as Gbessia. Passengers on these flights are usually bused between the aircraft and the terminal. Have your eSIM installed before you leave so you can contact your driver as soon as you land. ### How much data do I need for 7 days in Guinea? For 7 days in Guinea, Viasimo sells 1 GB for $8.00 and unlimited data for $93.00. Our sizing recommendation, not a measurement: maps, messaging and the occasional lookup, about 1 GB a week; maps, social, photos and some browsing, about 3 to 7 GB a week. The data calculator on this site works it out from how you actually use your phone. ## Information and verification - **Prices and plans**: Every price and allowance on this page is read from the live catalog, not typed in. Verified October 30, 2026. - **Host networks**: The operator list comes from the network partner that carries this eSIM. Verified October 30, 2026.