Snake Farm, Bangkok

On our last day in Bangkok we visited the Snake Farm. It is next to a hospital and is run by the Red Cross. It is the second oldest snake farm in the world and they use it for anti-venom and learning about snakes.

We went to the snake handling show and saw loads of cool snakes. We even got to touch 2 of them. I learned that a snakes nostrils are only for breathing and they smell with their tongue. They don't have good eye-sight but some of them can detect body heat, such as the Pit Viper, and some of them can feel vibrations very well.After the show we visited the museum. We saw lots of snakes in little enclosures, we saw preserved dead snakes and snakes eggs. They had real eggs that were going to hatch. And they also had the skeletons of snakes.

It was fun and the best bit was watching the show and seeing the King Cobra.