Finca Montezuma: Cacao Tasting Tour & Chocolate Workshop
Bocas del ToroWalk under 60-year-old cacao trees with sloths and kinkajous overhead, taste the pulp straight from the pod and the bean at every stage (raw, fermented, dried, roasted), then hot chocolate, nib brittle and truffles. The workshop adds roasting, grinding and brewing your own recipe, making brittle and rolling coconut-milk truffles to take home. Overwater cabins and treehouses if you want to stay. Our home base.
- Where
- Dolphin Bay, 20–25 min by water taxi from Bocas Town
- Duration
- Tasting Tour $20, ~2 h · Workshop $40, ~3 h · EN, ES, NL, FR
Website ↗Every production stage on an award-winning women-led farm, ending with two personalised bars you make yourself. A guided tasting of Panamanian chocolate is the shorter option.
- Where
- Ojo de Agua, Almirante (mainland)
- Duration
- About 3 h, from $30
Website ↗The best-known community-run tour in the archipelago: organic cacao under jungle shade, a hike, a demonstration of the whole process and lunch with the family.
- Where
- Ngäbe community near Almirante, from the Torres dock
- Duration
- About 2.5 h, departures 9:30 and 12:00
Website ↗A family-run organic farm and café on the highest hill of Bastimentos, going since 2003. Chocolate plus permaculture, coconut oil and botanicals, with a view that justifies the climb. Book ahead.
- Where
- Top of Bastimentos Island, walk up from Old Bank or Wizard Beach
- Duration
- Weekdays 11:00, about 2 h with lunch, around $25
Website ↗A 30-acre cacao plantation and botanical garden with sloths, howler monkeys and poison-dart frogs along the trail. Harvest to roast with plenty of samples; also home to the Planet Rehab reforestation nonprofit and a jungle casita for overnight stays.
- Where
- Cerro Brujo, south shore of Dolphin Bay, ~10 miles by boat from Bocas Town
- Duration
- 2 h, daily 10:00 and 14:00 by reservation
Website ↗A 55-acre rainforest reserve and lodge whose cacao is tended with the Bahía Honda Ngäbe-Buglé community, who lead the tour. Included for guests; day visitors get a farm-sourced lunch. Ages 8 and up.
- Where
- Isla Bastimentos, boat only from Bocas Town
- Duration
- Mornings, about 3 h, book 24 h ahead
Website ↗A tree-to-bar chocolate-making experience with the chocolatier herself, in town, no boat needed: cacao, coconuts and tropical fruit from local producers turned into bars, bonbons and cocada. Ask about the tasting evenings too.
- Where
- Bocas Town, Isla Colón
- Duration
- Hands-on session, book by WhatsApp
Website ↗Not a farm, but the easiest cacao stop on the island: a stand where you taste every stone-ground flavour, including the hot-pepper bar, before you buy.
- Where
- Bocas Town, Isla Colón
- Duration
- Drop in
Website ↗The capital’s newest bean-to-bar workshop, opened in October 2026 beside a coffee plant and café. The easy option if you are not going to Bocas.
- Where
- Corozal, Panama City
- Duration
- Bean-to-bar and farm-to-cup tours
Website ↗Visit the Nomé factory, follow the process from bean to bar, mould your own bars and taste the bonbons (the passion fruit one gets the reviews). Good for a rainy afternoon in the old town.
- Where
- Casco Viejo, Panama City
- Duration
- About 2 h, bookable online
Website ↗A café-boutique where you can taste Oro Moreno’s full range and other Panamanian bars side by side with a coffee. The best single shelf of Panamanian chocolate in the city.
- Where
- Obarrio, Panama City
- Duration
- Drop in
Website ↗Factory tour and chocolate-making class in the café that shares the building. Cacao is not grown in Boquete, so this is the place to understand what happens after the beans leave Bocas.
- Where
- The Perfect Pair, Avenida Central, Bajo Boquete
- Duration
- Tour + bar-making class, about $39 adult / $29 child
Website ↗A small family shop that will show the chocolate-making process and run a hands-on workshop if you ask ahead. Famous locally for its filled chocolates.
- Where
- Boquete, Chiriquí (confirm address)
- Duration
- By advance request
Website ↗Chocolate-making workshops at the shop of the family company that buys pods from 40-plus growers in Criollo country. Combine with the El Montuoso reserve, petroglyphs and waterfalls.
- Where
- Las Minas, Herrera (1 h from Chitré)
- Duration
- Workshop by arrangement
A MIDA/ATP-certified agrotourism farm growing cacao among other crops, with lookouts, a beach, camping, horseback riding and lodging. No fixed chocolate circuit yet in Costa Arriba; MIDA is now registering farms in Santa Isabel and Cuango for agrotourism.
- Where
- Cacique, Portobelo district, Colón
- Duration
- Day visit or overnight
Website ↗Check current prices and departure times directly with each operator.
