Welcome to Orchid Garden Khaolak

Located opposite the PTT petrol station in Khuk Khak and surrounded by rubber trees and lush green forest-covered mountains, you will find Khaolak Orchid Garden and Butterfly Farm. For a small entrance fee, you will find yourself in an exciting botanical garden, showing more than 300 different Thai orchid species, which normally live a secret life high above the ground in the upper canopy of the rain forests.

Khaolak Orchid Garden supports the Orchid Ark, a network of private gardens where indigenous orchids can be grown and propagated by seeds to maintain genetic variation. Read more at www.dokmaigarden.co.th/orchidark.php.

Orchid Garden Khaolak is a combination of an orchid farm and an exhibition, that shows all stages of nursing orchids, from the minuscule orchid seeds to the flowering orchid plant. The exhibition with coloured photographs and explanations in different languages helps the visitors to understand the complicated life cycle of the orchid family.

Discover the mystery of the orchids, the biggest family in the vegetable kingdom and learn why you cannot buy orchid seeds to grow them. Besides some orchid hybrids with their large and long-lasting flowers, Orchid Garden Khaolak concentrates on the native orchids of Thailand and their reproduction. Only a very limited number of orchid plants, that were grown from seeds are available for sale.

Visit Orchid Garden Khaolak to see the colourful flowers of various orchid hybrids, that have been cross-breeded for easier cultivation or admire the small flowers of the native orchids that are found on trees in the upper canopy of the rain forest, where the humidity is high all year round.

Butterly Farm Khaolak is a landscaped tropical garden showing living butterflies from all over Thailand. The exhibition with photos explains the complicated life cycle from the egg to the imago, and at our hatching area you can see some of the bizarre caterpillars eating the leaves of the different food plants.

Orchid Garden Khaolak and Butterfy Farm Khaolak are located between the kilometre stones 64 and 65, opposite the PTT petrol station in Khuk Khak, on the eastern side of the street.

We have decided for a piece of land amidst the nature in a quiet setting. Therefore, we are 250 m distant from the mainroad. You are welcome to drive your car, motorbike or ride your bicycle towards our entrance, or park it at the PTT petrol station and take a leisurely walk through the rubber plantation to our Orchid Garden and Butterfly Farm.

Orchid Garden Khaolak is open daily from 09:00 to 17:00. Entrance fee is 50 Baht per adult and 30 Baht per child.

Butterfly Farm Khaolak is open daily from 09:00 to 17:00. Entrance fee is 150 Baht per adult and 100 Baht per child.

Native orchids of the following orchid families can be seen at Orchid Garden Khaolak: Acampe, Acriopsis, Aerides, Arundina, Ascocentrum, Brachycorythis, Bulbophyllum, Calanthe, Chiloschista, Cirrhopetalum, Cleisomeria, Cleisostoma, Coelogyne, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Doritis, Eria, Eulophia, Flickingeria, Gastrochilus, Geodorum, Habenaria, Hygrochilus, Kingidium, Liparis, Ludisia, Luisia, Malaxis, Nervilia, Oberonia, Panisea, Paphiopedlum, Pecteilis, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Porpax, Rhynchostylis, Robiquetia, Seidenfadenia, Spathoglottis, Staurochilus, Thrixspermum, Thunia, Trias, Vanda, Vandopsis, Vanilla.