Snake Farm at Queen Saowapha Memorial Institute

We have been to snake show before, but the snake farm at Queen Saowapha Memorial Institute is quite different. It’s very educational, and it’s set up for the main purpose of extracting snake venom and to produce anti-venom serum for snake-bite victims. Too bad it was a public holiday yesterday, so we missed the chance of seeing how venom is extracted. Anyway, both hubby and I are yet to recover from our flu, and even if we might not need roadside assistance club on driving to the farm, we could only manage a brief visit this time. We shall bring the kids here again for the thorough visit.

It’s raining season now, so the weather is just perfect for outdoor visit. There are 2 parts of this snake farm, one outdoor and a small museum located in a building. My kids were thrilled to run from one cage to another, checking out the snakes, mostly pythons, and some of them are quite big.

The cages are not smelly, which is good.

Kids were looking for snakes through the glass.

Hi there…

The indoor section is very educational.

Hubby’s checking out some snake specimens.

I myself spent some time admiring the snakes too.

The snake victim did freak me out. LOL!

This is cool…I’ve never seen the internal organs of a snake.

Some of the longest snakes ever captured.

The dramatic daddy. LOL!

How often do you get to sit on snake fossil?

We enjoyed the snake show a lot because it’s not like those conventional snake shows with man kissing snake or whatever. It’s very factional, and we got to see king cobra, Siam cobra, some poisonous snake and etc. There was a non-venom snake too, which I can’t remember its name. It’s a 2nd graded protected species in Thailand because a lot of people think that they are poisonous and kill the poor snakes.

Siam cobra

BTW, we were told that there is a spraying cobra in the farm, which I missed the cage! The cobra can spray its venom up to a distance of 2m, so it’s too dangerous to be shown. I would definitely pay more attention to the cages on my next visit.

Of course, the visitors are allowed to touch and carry the Burmese python, and the kids were very eager. They just walked down the steps on their own and I shouted, “Don’t squeeze the snake!” One angmoh tourist couldn’t help laughing at me.

Isabelle tried to touch the python when a tourist was snapping photo.

Justin is strong enough to carry it. It’s very heavy!

Of course, the kids are so daring already, how can the mommy be coward leh?

Frankly, the python gave me a fright when the tongue hissed on my arm. Sipeh geli. I think I was shouting, oh gosh, oh gosh, so GROOOOSSS…..