Incredible view of the London Skyline from the Sky Garden.

Visiting the Sky Garden is the cheapest way to see London from the top. Recently I have written about London seen from The Shard. As we know getting into The Shard is not the cheapest experience. You have to pay 26 £ admissions per person.

The Sky Garden gives you the opportunity to get a birds-eye view of London for free. The basic condition for it is making a booking a few weeks before. You can do it from this website.

We came to the Sky Garden in late October on Sunday. Being in a rush we reached the main doors around 10:50 a.m. and could join the last group of people without payable admission. Only a few hours in the morning are reserved for this purpose. After 11 am admission is bookable with the fee.
After several seconds of the fast trip by lift, we entered the Garden site. This place is amazing. The garden on the top looks awesome, however, the vegetation looks quite confined. The plants are located in a few sections, which makes the garden fairly big. Everything looks very nice with a restaurant beyond, behind glass.

Sky Garden at the top of the Walkie Talkie skyscraper vegetation — Pic. 1 – 3 The vegetation in the Sky Garden.

Anyway, my basic aim for this visit was to enjoy the beautiful panorama of Greater London and its environs. It was my first attempt to see London from this altitude because I visited the Shard nearly 1 year later. I can admit, that I was awestruck by the Bird’s eye perspective of the United Kingdom capital. Unfortunately, the visibility was not good that day. Compared to the day, when I reached the top of the highest building in Europe the haze was thicker. It gave me the opportunity to have around a 30 km line of sight. Because it was before I bought a DSLR camera I used my old Canon Powershot SX 130 IS with 12x superzoom to enclose distance objects. I put my photos from the north direction following the azimuth route to make the landscape easily readable.

Let’s have a look at the most remarkable sights, that you can experience being at the top of the Walkie-Talkie skyscraper. I would like clearly show you what exactly you can see from the Sky Garden. There are many places to cover. The viewpoint is around 50m lower than the top of The Shard, though many spots of Greater London are still clearly visible.
The basic disadvantage of taking pictures through the glass is white ghosts caused by reflecting the external light. As an outcome, the quality of the photos is quite poor.