When my sister and her family visited us in Sri Lanka in 2004, we went out and did a few touristy things in Colombo.
Of course I'd heard of snake charmers, and of course I'd seen animated movies and such with snake charmers in them. Who in the west hasn't? And when you see the snake charmers in animations, you see snakes climbing higher and higher and higher…
The reality wasn't quite so impressive. What you see in the photo was about as high vertically as they got. Bummer. A hundred rupees down the drain…
That’s good to know! I always wondered how they could stand so high. Still creepy, though.
Are those cobras? They may not be up as high as in the cartoons, but that’s still a scary snake. I like my view just fine, thanks to you.
Momma, I always wondered, too.
Socalgal, I’m not sure. I don’t know snakes. Okay, just asked Fahim and he says yes. He also says the snake charmers cut out the venom sacs, so even if you were bit by one, it wouldn’t harm you beyond the bite itself.
Oddly, I wasn’t worried about snake bits at the time…