12-11-19 Chiang Mai-Two Snakes On A Fun Samoeng Loop

[Captain_Slash]

Distance 188 km

This beautiful harmless Red Tailed Racer emerged onto the road just north of Mae Rim

It stopped and let me take the photos before turning around back into the grass

I could see from the moving grass it was running parallel to the road then it had another go at crossing the road





This snake was so chilled out and seemed happy posing for the camera, it never once seemed agitated or showed any aggression

I was then distracted by two trucks coming along which I had to stop or else they would have run the snake over

Back out it comes for its second attempt at crossing the road

Then it just disappeared up into a tree



A dumping ground for old toilets



Lovely bendy roads again



I seem to be attracting the wildlife today







Time to explore some offroad tracks as well









Last week I rode here and took the paved road, today its the dirt tracks turn















Now on a road that should be unpaved according to both Auke's and the OSM maps. Someone has been busy with the concrete lorry



Eventually it turns to unpaved



I am really enjoying this track







Vivid colours everywhere right now







Riding along and a guy was chopping in the grass like he was looking for something then I saw another guy standing there holding a long stick and I guessed they were shooing a snake out.
Before I could get my camera out this cobra emerged and was instantly killed with the stick





Then it was just left there, a savage pointless killing to me as they aren't going to eat it.
Kill all the snakes and watch the rats and other vermin eat your crops seems to be the policy







The road alternates between paved and unpaved a couple of times



This track brings me out on one I noticed last week and mentioned I hadnt seen it there before

Chicken curry and brown/black rice at Kanjana 105 Baht

 

[Captain_Slash]

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[Ally]

Thanks for sharing the pics Colin, the Race snake pics are spectacular, a lucky spot.

 

[Snakeboy]

Magnificent snake photos....?

 

[Gnasher328]

Some great snake pics. Perhaps they just kill the poisonous ones like cobras? I wouldn't like to tread on one while working in a paddy field!

 

[galoubet]

No. Thais kill any snake. They don't care (or take the trouble to find out) which snakes are venomous. I once paid a neighbour 100 baht to give me a 3m reticulated python he'd captured and was going to kill. (He knew I was a soft touch.) I just released it far away from my neighbour. Wonderful to see it quickly slither away to freedom. But those pictures are really good, Colin. A lucky man and a lucky snake I think.