Orchid gardens, farm visits and horse breeding give you different reasons to travel to Cerro Punta. The Sendero Los Quetzales adds another highlight, complementing garden and farm visits with a trail connecting two places. To start planning, decide whether plants, agricultural insights, horses or nature watching along the trail should shape your stay.
Festival and a Look at the Farm
Alongside garden and nature visits, there is also a festival focused on strawberries and vegetables: Cerro Punta hosted its second edition in 2024 and its third in 2025.
Cerro Punta Highlands offers a tour of the farm, a visit to the packing station and greenhouse, a cable car ride and a tasting. Unlike a visit focused solely on plants, what stands out here is the range of stops and the tasting.
Orchid Gardens and Nature Along the Trail
More than 2,000 orchid species are cultivated in the botanical gardens of Cerro Punta. These include the EspĂritu Santo flower, Panama’s national flower. This makes plant diversity the clear focus of a garden visit, with the national flower as a specifically named part of the collection.
Finca Drácula offers guided tours of its gardens and trails surrounded by cloud forest. This sets the visit apart from a dedicated orchid collection: the focus is on guided garden visits and trails in a cloud forest setting. Access details may change; check the visit information before your trip. Discounts and special offers are available when booking tickets for Finca Drácula online. Check those ticket details in advance as well.
The Sendero Los Quetzales connects Cerro Punta in the Tierras Altas District with Alto Chiquero in the Boquete District. Along the trail, visitors can observe birds, various insect and mammal species, and plants. If you plan to hike the trail, check the latest access information in advance.
Garden Visit or Nature Watching?
Nature and garden visits offer different experiences. The botanical gardens focus on a cultivated orchid collection; Finca Drácula combines guided garden tours with trails surrounded by cloud forest. Along the Sendero Los Quetzales, plants are observed alongside birds, various insect and mammal species. This distinction can help you choose: prioritize a botanical collection, a guided garden and trail visit, or nature watching along a route connecting two places. The experiences thus cater to different interests rather than being similar versions of the same visit.
Horses and Thoroughbred Breeding
A visit to Haras Cerro Punta offers direct contact with horses and insights into the breeding and raising of Thoroughbreds. A 45-minute guided tour takes you around the lake and to Parque Memorial de Padrillos. The 45-minute duration makes the tour easy to fit into your schedule; confirm in advance whether it is available on your travel date.
For the broader travel overview: Bugaba.
