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SNAKE MEAT ANYONE

SNAKE MEAT ANYBODY? A grilled water snake was on the field lunch menu during my trip to the Tram Chim Nature Reserve, which is in the Plain of Reeds, located in the Mekong River Delta of southern Vietnam's Dong Thap Province. Being a vegetarian, I settled for young lotus leaves, sticky rice, chill sauce and wine. With a system of swamps, grass-plots and criss-crossing canals, the 7,500ha Tram Chim has become an ideal habitat for more than 140 species of plants, 40 species of fish, pythons, turtles, eels and snakes, 198 rare and precious species of birds such as pelicans, storks, herons, spot-billed ducks, water chickens - and, of course, red-headed, bare-necked, also known as sarus, cranes.

• Date: 16 May 2008
• Photographer: danalasta: gallery
• Location: Vietnam: gallery
• Tags: snake mekong lotus tram_chim nature_reserve
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