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Fido travel package: A major disappointment! The only big disappointment during our journey to Africa was the Fido travel package that I bought to keep family and friends up-to-date in our adventure. The intention was to send a daily email directly from the mountain to the blog, to inform our advance in the climbing. The idea was to post few lines and one or two pictures every day. I was thinking in using the mobile data from the travel package during our time in the mountain and rely on hotel’s Wi-Fi during Safari portion. I did a research for the packages Fido and Rogers offered and were quite similar. I also checked if the local cell phone providers in Tanzania had service coverage in the Kilimanjaro Mountain. After all, the roaming would only work if there is at least one local provider with signal in the visited area. Reading the blogs of some climbers that had gone to Kilimanjaro, it was reasonably to assume that both (Rogers and Fido) travel packages would work well. Th

Starting at Shira Camp II the sun hit us hard.  We were close to the equator and high in the mountain (over 3,850m altitude). One day I had the solar panel displayed on my backpack, some hours in the afternoon, and a guy from Tennessee asked me about its performance. I had no idea at that moment, as I was just charging the charger first time in the mountain, but the next morning we crossed again, and I was happy to tell him, that I had been able to charge the iPod with the charger to 100% and still had some power left in the charger. With the remaining power, I loaded, later that day, 50% of my Samsung core, and before the power of the charger got completely off, I plugged it again to the panel, which this time was hanging on the roof of the tent, facing directly to the sun, and both the Samsung and the charger got charged completely. The solar panel worked very well up in the mountain. I fully charged my phone (always through the chargers) with 3 hours’ sun exposure of the Nomad

Sent from my iPod: BUENAS NOTICIAS EL NUEVO TRAILER DE LA NUEVA PELICULA "ENTRE NUVES Y SUEÑOS" HA SALIDO la película va estar lista muy pronto... Fin de la espera, Versión en español: Entre nubes y sueños No more waiting, English version (subtitles): Between Clouds and Dreams