Whether you are a citizen of Kenya or visiting Nairobi for business or pleasure some many activities and experiences would suit any traveler.
Nairobi Kenya is the only capital city in the world with a national park on its boundaries, making it a prime tourist destination. Nairobi city has a diverse and multicultural composition; there are several churches, mosques, temples, and gurdwaras within Nairobi city. Nairobi is home to several picnic sites, museums, tourist sites, and monuments, plus spectacular five-star hotels to cater to safari-bound tourists.
Best Picnic Sites in Nairobi.
Jeevanje Gardens
The park features beautiful gardens and trees providing welcome shade from the tropical sun. It is dotted with artistic benches and sculptures that add to its appeal. Its location makes it an ideal picnic site in Nairobi.
On a typical weekday, you will find many people relaxing on the benches or lawns, or just walking around the park.
One of the few designated smoking zones in the city is also situated here.
The Jeevanjee Gardens is bounded by Moi Avenue, Monrovia Street, Muindi Mbingu Street and Moktar Daddah Street towards the northern end of the city center. The Park is open for free to the public.
Ngong Hills
Located just 22km southwest of Nairobi city, Ngong hills make a very popular weekend destination for visitors from all over the country. Activities include Hiking, Picnics, and jogging.
Karura Forest
The Karura Forest Reserve is an urban upland forest on the outskirts of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. This remarkable geographical location and natural resource are one of the largest gazetted forests in the world fully within city limits.
Attractions include Mau Mau caves, Nature trails, wildlife, scenic waterfalls, and bamboo forest.
Nairobi Arboretum
Picnic Sites in Nairobi – Nairobi Arboretum
The 30hectare forest reserve is situated 3km from the city center. Its proximity to the city center makes it easily accessible on foot. It holds over 350 species of indigenous and exotic plants, most of which are labeled. It¡¦s also home to over 100 species of birds, and a significant population of Sykes and Vervet monkeys.
Oloolua Nature Trail
Hidden away in the upmarket suburb of Karen is 250 hectares of the indigenous tropical dry Oloolua forest that is home to the Institute of Primate Research (IPR) that is run by the National Museums of Kenya.
Activities include Jogging, picnic, camping, short hikes, guided tours in the forest, visiting the caves, swamps, and waterfall.
Central Park
It occupies an area bounded by Kenyatta Avenue, Nyerere Avenue and Uhuru Highway, behind Nairobi Serena Hotel. Activities include a picnic and a children’s playground.
Uhuru Gardens
It is where Kenya’s first flag was raised on 12th December 1963. The national monument on Langata Road in Kenya’s largest memorial park. The park offers a tranquil picnic site in Nairobi, a popular family outing destination and a venue for corporate events. The Uhuru monument stands in it.
Nairobi City Park
Nairobi City Park stands above most in its rich biodiversity. The forest is indigenous, with several tree species that are endemic to Kenya.
It is located in the parklands area of Nairobi. Attractions include a sculpture garden, Murumbi Memorial Park, jogging, picnic sites, and nature trails.
Uhuru Park
It is the most popular Picnic site in Nairobi and is used mainly as an assembly point for celebrating national holidays, for political rallies during election periods, and prayer meetings by various religious organizations.
Attractions include Boat riding on the artificial lake, picnic sites and monuments.
Paradise lost
It is a beautiful oasis in the middle of a coffee farm close to Kiambu Town, about 10km from Nairobi. Activities include boat riding, fishing, bird watching, feeding Ostriches, horse, and camel riding, visiting the caves, waterfall, camping and walk on the nature trail.
Rowallan Camp
It’s situated along Kibera Drive adjacent to the Ngong Road Forest Reserve about 9km from the city center. Activities include: camping, taking walks on the nature trails, Short hike to some caves located in the Ngong Road forest reserve.
Bomb Blast Memorial Park
It is located along Haile Selassie Avenue, at the scene where the 1998 terrorist bomb attack took place at the then United States Embassy. It contains a board with names of the people who were reported dead due to the incident.
The park also has a Visitors Centre that features a Museum displaying images and exhibits that aim to sensitize the public on the need for peace and tolerance, and an Auditorium that plays a documentary of the disaster.