Wuzhou Snake Park

　　　　Located at Shigu Chong, Shigu Road, at the foot of Baiyun Mountain in Wuzhou City, it was originally called the Snake Warehouse. Each year, it stores about 500,000 live snakes, making it the largest snake warehouse in Southeast Asia.
　　The Snake Park was established in 1956 as the small animal warehouse of the Wuzhou Branch of Guangxi Grain, Oil & Foodstuffs Import & Export Corporation. It specialized in exporting various traditional live snakes, frozen snakes, other small animals, and their products from Guangxi. The warehouse housed venomous snakes such as the king cobra, cobra, golden ring snake, silver ring snake, five-step snake, and hundred-pace snake; non-venomous snakes included rat snakes, python snakes, and water snakes; snake products comprised snake skins, dried snakes, frozen snake meat, three-snake gallbladders, snake bile juice, snake wine, and snake venom.
　　Built against a hillside, the park enjoys an elegant environment and features a four-story snake-breeding building covering over 10,000 square meters and an underground snake cave storage area, making it the world’s largest live snake breeding and storage facility. In the center of the park’s pond lies a massive rock said to have fallen from the sky, on which a sculpture of “Three Dragons Playing with a Pearl” is displayed. Inside the pond is a scene of “Turtle and Snake Gazing at the Sky.” The pond walls are adorned with murals and sculptures depicting various legends about snakes. The park also presents a cobra fighting show, where cobras always emerge victorious due to the antivenom enzymes in their bodies.　　In 1988, then Vice Premier of the State Council of China visited the Snake Park and personally inscribed the words “Wuzhou Snake Park” and “Snake Gallbladder, a Miraculous Medicine.” The snake products here are authentic and high-quality, while the snake cuisine offers unique flavors, enjoying fame both at home and abroad.

　　 Wuzhou City, Guangxi