Bangkok Snake Farm

[daydreamer]

Sorry to disappoint.  This post is not about trouser snakes, but instead the reptilian kind.

I have seen the Bangkok Snake Farm mentioned here, but only in a brief snippet without details.  I visited there today, and thought and the following might be of interest for someone looking for a way to spend a couple hours in the Silom area during the daytime.

I am posting this in the Gay Bangkok section.  Although not specifically gay info, they do have a couple live spitting snakes (cobras) on display, so that is close enough to qualify this entry into the Gay Bangkok section of the forum.    

Just a very short walk from the Surawong and Rama IV intersection is the sprawling Red Cross compound.  In one section, the Red Cross runs the Bangkok Snake Farm, where it has operated for over 100 years.  

There is a snake museum, more like a zoo, with live snakes on exhibit, a daily 30 minute snake handling demonstration, and a venomous snake milking show.   The show features a king cobra, two monocled cobras, along with many others, including Thailand's deadliest snake, the banded krait. 

There is also a restaurant and a cafe on the grounds.  The restaurant has down to earth prices, with a fresh cooked pad thai priced at 50 baht, very reasonable for a sit down restaurant in the Silom area.

Admission is 200 baht (50 baht for Thais), and includes the museum and two shows mentioned above, and a photo opportunity to hold a Burmese python around your neck and shoulders, if you wish. 

This farm provides a valuable service, with the extracted venom being used to create medical antivenom, and distributed to hospitals throughout the country, for emergency use to treat snake bite patients.

If you go, I recommend going an hour early, and have lunch  or a cold drink before the show.  The amphitheater seating begins filling about 30 minutes before show time.  I don't recall the milking show time, but here's a photo of the snake handling show timings.

 

[TMax]

I've been there a couple of times and it is worth a visit, a nice way to use up a couple of spare hours. 

[Keithambrose]

1 hour ago, daydreamer said:

Sorry to disappoint.  This post is not about trouser snakes, but instead the reptilian kind.

I have seen the Bangkok Snake Farm mentioned here, but only in a brief snippet without details.  I visited there today, and thought and the following might be of interest for someone looking for a way to spend a couple hours in the Silom area during the daytime.

I am posting this in the Gay Bangkok section.  Although not specifically gay info, they do have a couple live spitting snakes (cobras) on display, so that is close enough to qualify this entry into the Gay Bangkok section of the forum.    

Just a very short walk from the Surawong and Rama IV intersection is the sprawling Red Cross compound.  In one section, the Red Cross runs the Bangkok Snake Farm, where it has operated for over 100 years.  

There is a snake museum, more like a zoo, with live snakes on exhibit, a daily 30 minute snake handling demonstration, and a venomous snake milking show.   The show features a king cobra, two monocled cobras, along with many others, including Thailand's deadliest snake, the banded krait. 

There is also a restaurant and a cafe on the grounds.  The restaurant has down to earth prices, with a fresh cooked pad thai priced at 50 baht, very reasonable for a sit down restaurant in the Silom area.

Admission is 200 baht (50 baht for Thais), and includes the museum and two shows mentioned above, and a photo opportunity to hold a Burmese python around your neck and shoulders, if you wish. 

This farm provides a valuable service, with the extracted venom being used to create medical antivenom, and distributed to hospitals throughout the country, for emergency use to treat snake bite patients.

If you go, I recommend going an hour early, and have lunch  or a cold drink before the show.  The amphitheater seating begins filling about 30 minutes before show time.  I don't recall the milking show time, but here's a photo of the snake handling show timings.

 

"I am posting this in the Gay Bangkok section.  Although not specifically gay info, they do have a couple live spitting snakes (cobras) on display, so that is close enough to qualify this entry into the Gay Bangkok section of the forum."

 

Excellent!