Wuzhou Snake Garden

Ticket Price: 5 RMB Contact Info: Located at Shigu Valley under Baiyun Mountain, Shigu Road, Wuzhou Telephone: 2022964 Best Visiting Period The area features a typical subtropical humid monsoon climate with warm and damp weather. The annual average temperature stands at around 21°C, annual rainfall reaches 1,500 millimeters, and the frost-free period lasts 350 days. Temperatures vary little across seasons, creating a remarkably pleasant living environment. Spring and autumn are the optimal travel seasons. Complaint Hotline: 0774-3856362

Take Bus No.10 or a taxi to arrive directly.

Situated in Shigu Valley under Baiyun Mountain on Shigu Road, Wuzhou Snake Garden was formerly known as the Snake Warehouse. It stores approximately 500,000 live snakes of various species each year, making it the largest snake warehouse in Southeast Asia.

Founded in 1956, the site originally served as a small-animal storage warehouse of the Wuzhou Branch of Guangxi Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation. It specialized in exporting Guangxi’s traditional specialties including live snakes, frozen snakes, other small wild animals and their by-products. Venomous snakes raised here include king cobras, Chinese cobras, banded kraits, many-banded kraits, sharp-nosed pit vipers and hundred-step pit vipers. Non-venomous varieties comprise Chinese rat snakes, oriental rat snakes and water snakes. Snake products cover snake skins, dried whole snakes, frozen snake meat, three-snake gallbladders, snake bile, snake wine, snake venom and more.

Built against the mountain amid an elegant setting, the garden boasts a four-story snake-rearing building spanning over 10,000 square meters plus underground snake storage caves, ranking it the world’s largest live snake breeding and preservation base to date. At the center of the garden’s pond lies a huge boulder said to be a meteorite, decorated with a sculpture of "Three Dragons Playing with a Pearl". The pond features a sculptural group of "Tortoise and Snake Gazing at the Sky", while murals and carvings depicting snake legends adorn the pond walls. The garden hosts live performances of mongoose vs snake battles. Mongooses always prevail thanks to anti-venom enzymes in their bodies.

In 1988, Tian Jiyun, then Vice Premier of the State Council, visited the garden and inscribed two handwritten plaques reading "Wuzhou Snake Garden" and "Snake gallbladders are miraculous panaceas". The garden supplies authentic, premium snake by-products and distinctive snake feasts, earning a renowned reputation both domestically and overseas.