Cobra Show

This was one if the best things on the trip.  It was a 10-minute drive to the place and it cost me about $6.50 to watch the show, but it was totally worth it!  There were a bunch of snakes on display so I spent about 15 minutes looking at those.  They really are magnificent creatures with elegant slithering movements.  Then at 11:00, the show started.

There was a big pit in the middle and I sat in the second row because who knows, a snake might get out of control and come flying out at me.  The first snake-charmer was this dark, skinny, tatted up, Hulk Hogan looking Thai.  He got on his hands and feet and started dancing around with a cobra.  They really know how to please the audience.  He slapped it a few times on the head, kissed it, put his fingers on it's fangs, he would strike at the snake and jump back when it would strike back at him.  After about 5 minutes, he easily caught it and them brought it around for the audience to feel it.  Apparently it's very good luck to touch a cobra ... lucky enough to get you married, although that doesn't seem too difficult out here.  

There were a few other exhibitions too, like a guy fighting a really pissed off snake that would try to strike at him at every chance he got.  He inished by grabbig the snake by the tail, spinning around and grabbing the head.  There was also the largest python in Asia that two guys caught.  

For the second to the last event, they pitted a cobra against a mongoose.  As violent as it looked with the cobra's head in the mongoose's mouth at the end, they said there's nondeath in the show and they pulled the snake out before it died.     

The last event was awesome.  It was one man and three cobras.  He danced around with them, pulling them
Back with their tails when it tried to get away.  They'd strike him in unison, but e caught one with his left hand, then he caught the second one with his right hand.  Then with a snake in each hand, he did a half handstand and caught the last one with his mouth.  The adrenaline pumping through my veins was crazy.  He posed, people gave money, then we left.