I wasn’t sure what to expect after reading the leaflet given to me at the tourist police office. From the leaflet, it looked like a bit of a circus show inviting tourists to watch the handlers kiss the snakes, dance with them, and even put the snakes’ heads in their mouths! In fact, there are two of these ‘circuses’ in the village: the Kok Sa-Nga Zoo Society and the King Cobra Club Of Thailand. The Zoo Society I walked past looked like just a ramshackle collection of wooden huts around a small stage with big speakers. The King Cobra Club was actually pretty much the same on a bigger scale. Rows and rows of chairs were laid out by the stage, clearly in anticipation of bus tours. The cobras themselves were housed in large cages, as were a couple of pythons, crocodiles, and lizards. If you want to see a performance, you have to wait for a group to show up and then contribute a 'donation.' I wasn’t too keen on seeing what the photographs around the place confirmed as a circus show, so I left.

I think the quiet walk through very rural Kok Sa-Nga to and from the main road was a lot more enjoyable than the Cobra Club. It really begs to be said, but it was, in my opinion, a load of old cobras!