Wuzhou Snake Park

Wuzhou Snake Park

Introduction

Located at Shigu Chong, Shigu Road, at the foot of Baiyun Mountain in Wuzhou City, it was originally called the Snake Warehouse. It stores approximately 500,000 live snakes annually, making it the largest snake warehouse in Southeast Asia.

The Snake Park was established in 1956. It was originally a small animal warehouse of the Wuzhou Branch of Guangxi Grain, Oil and Food Import and Export Company, specializing in the export of various live snakes, frozen snakes, other small animals, and their products—traditional specialties of Guangxi. The venomous snakes in the warehouse include king cobras, spectacled cobras, golden ring snakes, silver ring snakes, five-step snakes, and hundred-pace snakes; non-venomous snakes include rat snakes, python snakes, and water snakes; snake products include snake skins, dried snakes, frozen snake meat, three-snake gallbladders, snake bile juice, snake wine, and snake venom.

Built against a mountain, the park enjoys an elegant environment and features a four-story snake-breeding building covering over 10,000 square meters and an underground cave snake storage facility, making it currently the world’s largest live snake breeding and storage site. In the center of the park’s pond lies a massive rock said to have fallen from the sky, atop which stands a sculpture of “Three Dragons Playing with a Pearl.” Inside the pond, there is a “Turtle and Snake Gazing at the Sky” display. The pond walls are adorned with murals and sculptures depicting various legends about snakes. The park also offers cobra fighting performances, where the cobra—thanks to the anti-venom enzymes in its body—is always the victor. In 1988, then Vice Premier of the State Council [name redacted] visited the Snake Park and personally inscribed the words “Wuzhou Snake Park” and “Snake Gallbladder, a Miraculous Elixir.” The snake products here are authentic and high-quality, while the snake cuisine offers a unique flavor, enjoying fame both in China and abroad.

Wuzhou City, Guangxi