Langata Botanical Garden🍂

Hey you.🤗 Thank you for coming back, and if you are new here, welcome to our budget family❤️.

Exactly two years ago today, I had my first birthday ‘party’. It was a small and intimate picnic🙊 but I consider it a party because it was the first time I intentionally did something for my birthday; with people other than family💁. I also remember it well because I had to wake up at 5am to study for two exams that fell on Monday 27th😅; my actual birth date.

*The amazing ladies that shared the day with me*❤️

We had the picnic at the beautiful Langata Botanical Garden🍂. And as I recently reminisced on the memories ahead of my birthday tomorrow, I thought it a good idea to share with you this beautiful space. If I may also add, this is the place that gave birth to my love for picnics🤩.

1. Getting there

The Langata Botanical Garden is located along the Hardy – Karen route right after the Kenya School of Law.

To get there, you can either board a City Hoppa bus heading to Hardy beside KCB Kencom branch or a NaBoKa Bus heading to Hardy at Bus Station. It should cost you about Ksh 70 and the stage you will alight at is called Botanical Garden.

Once you alight, the garden will be on your left.

2. Entrance fees

At the entrance, you will be presented with two options; (i)to either pay a picnic fee of Ksh 500 or (ii)to get free admission with the condition that you must purchase something from their restaurant.

Considering that you can purchase something as little as soda from their restaurant, we went with the second option.

3. Food

One of the strategies I use to stay on a budget is making sure I carry snacks/ food whenever possible📝. It wasn’t any different on this day because Langata Botanical Garden allows you to carry your own snacks into the garden.

As a requirement mentioned above, we also bought a full chicken and two plates of chips to add to the snacks we had carried for the day. This cost us about Ksh 1,500 and was totally worth the price😋.

*The beautiful cake of the day made by sister Jemeli. In case you are wondering, YES, it tasted as beautiful as it looked*😍

4. The space

The garden is quite expansive and offers a serene space for weddings, birthdays and other events. This means that we had a huge huge space to lay down our lessos, converse and play games through the day.

I unfortunately did not take many pictures of the garden but as technology has it, Facebook saved the day.💃

Behind us is the first and larger open space that provides ample space to comfortably pitch a number of tents

They also have a dam/ water body on the property coupled with three gazebos right next to it😍😍. So peaceful.

..and this beautiful Valentine’s breakfast set up from their page 😍

Isn’t it lovely? I hope that my few images have done this space some justice and that you’ve fallen in love with it as much as we did.🤩

I will also add that since we visited in 2018, and my last visit was in 2019, some of the prices might have changed by now. Kindly have this in mind when you visit☺️.