World Travel: King Cobra - Snake Show - Chiang Mai Attractions

12/13/2012

King Cobra - Snake Show - Chiang Mai Attractions

Taxi Chiangmai: Patrick 081 617 2116 Oversea Call: +66 81 617 2116 E-mail: neomart@gmail.com

Recommend: Elephant show + elephant riding through jungle and stream to 7 hilltribe village (including Long neck karen) + monkey show + Orchid/butterfly farm and lunch buffet at Tiger Kingdom, a day program about 6-7 hours, if time allow we may visit Cobra show too

Fees: 2,450 Baht per person for 2-3 person (if one person = 4,900 Baht) including air-con car/English speaking driver/gasoline/ticket for Elephant show/Elephant ride/hilltribe/monkey show/orchid n butterfly and Lunch buffet

Whilst the King Cobra is not the most poisonous snake in the World it is the World’s largest poisonous snake. Billed as ‘the most exciting snake show in the World’, the King Cobra snake show in Chiang Mai is certainly a popular attraction.

To many people, even the name King Cobra, will send a shiver down their backs so, of course, the snake handlers and presenters of the King Cobra snake show get a lot of fun out of exploiting most people’s unreasonable fear of Snakes (Ophidiophobia). Naturally, with such experienced snake handlers there is absolutely no risk to the visitors but that does not stop some people from scrambling up to the higher reaches of the seating arena.

The King Cobra snake show is very well presented and the excellent commentary in both Thai and English is both highly informative about the King Cobra and some of the other types of snake in the show as well as being a great deal of fun. The snake handlers put the King Cobra and other snakes through their paces encouraging them to attack and then catching them by hand and even or even with their mouth. The highlight of the show is perhaps a mouth to mouth kiss with a King Cobra. During the show we attended, one of the handlers was bitten by a Water Snake, fortunately for the handler, a non poisonous snake. The effervescent commentator assured us that this was an accident and not part of the show and looking at the handler’s face we are sure she was telling the truth.

At the end of the snake show there is a demonstration of how snake venom is collected and of course, for the not faint hearted, an opportunity to be photographed with a King Cobra wrapped round your neck.

The King Cobra Snake Show is open daily from 8am – 5pm, with shows almost continuous. Admission fee is 200 Baht.