Cobra Village

How to make an entire village from the provincial tourist attraction? To address this issue very original doctor came from Thailand, he came up and persuaded the locals to start and grow harmless snakes as pets in their homes, later to catch the imagination of tourists tame reptiles. And after 60 years of village became known outside of the country and citizens from all attendance mira.

The idea came to mind settlers, and now the village of Ban Kok Sa-Nga in the north-east of Thailand has received an unofficial but very suitable to her name - Cobra Village. Each of the 140 homes this place lives at least one or two creeping reptiles, which the owners are usually kept outside in a wooden yaschike.

Species diversity of snakes amazing first got here guests: here you can come across as highly venomous cobras and on quite harmless pitonov.

However, despite such a density of reptiles, the atmosphere in the village is always festive, as the animals are the main participants in the local entertainment. Thus, the most famous - is a boxing match of man and snake: a fighter in the ring mocking already razdrakonennuyu king cobra, which adds to the already dangerous event a little more ostroty.

Despite the stormy and cautious response to snakes from the tourists, the locals have been living at odds with these creatures. Almost from pelёnochnogo age children are imparted skills that enable them to care for their pets creeping and, if necessary, to deal with them.

Source: mirfactov.com/