Giant snake squash protects Phong Nha - Ke Bang forest

Phong Nha - Ke Bang is not only famous for its beautiful caves hidden under the rows of overlapping limestone rocks. Here, it also circulates thrilling and scary stories about giant snakes protecting Khe Mon forest (Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park).

The rumor story of those who have met giant snakes has caused many loggers and hunters to not dare to focus on Khe Mon forest (Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park) in Quang Binh.

Land of snakes .

Khe Mon is located right at km4 of Road 20 Quyet Thang. This forest is located next to a residential area, but is a primeval forest, home to many rare and precious animals such as monkeys, langurs, chamois and especially snakes.

Many local people said that they often met cobra cobra, cobra as big as small pillars, 6 -7m long . Many also claimed that they had met a giant snake like a house pillar, more than 10m long appeared in Khe Mon forest.

Khe Mon forest area, which is believed to have giant snakes living.

Hoang Van Nhuan (70 years old) in Phong Nha village (Son Trach commune, Bo Trach district), which is a famous hunter, said:

' More than 20 years ago, once in Khe Mon forest, I set traps, thirsty, I went to find a slot to drink. In the middle of the summer, Khe Mon water was almost depleted. I found it when I saw a pool of water and went to see a pile of black things lying in a puddle. Thinking of the black stone, I got closer and dumbfounded when I saw that it was a giant snake curled up in a puddle of water, its head close to the cliff. I tried to keep quiet to not make a sound, but people kept trembling '.

Not as lucky as Mr. Nhuan, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tinh, in Phong Nha village, Son Trach commune, a forest specialist looking for iron scrap, was chased by a giant snake and returned to sick for nearly a month.

' Last April, I went to Khe Mon forest to find scraps, and at noon, I finished eating rice balls and went down to the stream to drink water and wash my face. About 50m from the stream, I heard the sound of breathing in the stream, looking down and seeing that the snake was curled louder than the tires of the car, head up to the cliff, the pattern on it was sparkling, above the head of the dragon. soap 'has small zigzag squares like chess pieces. My arms and legs were limp, but I thought she was sleeping, so I still tried to see what it was, suddenly the snake flapped its tail, its head bulged like a tray plunging to the stream, I turned to run . . - - Calculate recounting.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Tinh - who was chased by the giant snake when looking for scrap.

Snake to protect the forest?

Carefully asking people in Son Trach commune, there are dozens of people claiming to have met this giant snake . People assert that this is a snake, not a python because of python is very gentle, never chasing people. But whatever snake, each person says each other, who thinks of the earth tiger snake, the cobra, the cobra snake .

Bringing the story of the giant snake to Mr. Phan Hong Thai - Head of Phong Nha - Ke Bang Forest Protection Department , Thai said he also met that giant snake. In 1997-1998, when Mr. Thai was working as Head of the Ranger Station No. 4, in order to improve the meals for the brothers, Thai often went to the stream to drop a fishing net and met this snake.

According to Thai, with the characteristics he observed, it was a cobra and it was present in Khe Mon forest for decades. Currently, this giant snake still occasionally appears in Khe Mon area.

According to Mr. Bien - a genuine lumberjack: 'Near Khe Mon people have cultivated some rice area. Sometimes today when the rice has just been finished, the next morning, when the rice comes out, it looks like there is a big log that has pulled through the rice field because the snake crawled over . ' However, so far, there have not been any cases where the giant snake bites dead or aggressively attacks .

However, with the dominance of this giant snake, the Khe Mon forest is almost strictly protected. Mr. Nguyen Van Binh - an expert hunter in Son Trach - raised a very good hunting dog. At the end of last summer, Mr. Binh decided to take the hunting dog to the Khe Mon area, hoping to meet the giant snake. Nearing the end of the day without moving, Mr. Binh was reluctant to return, when he heard the barking dog barking under the slit.

Mr. Binh had his equipment running down, a horrifying scene that made him no longer believe in his eyes: The "python" was holding his hunting dog. The dog only had two forelegs and the head still struggled, suddenly the snake with its tail swollen and swallowed the dog. Mr. Binh rushed home. And since then, Mr. Binh has always been a hunter.

Another famous hunter in Hung Trach (not far away) when he heard that Khe Mon forest had many wild animals, he also planned to carry guns into poachers. However, the time that the infamous hunter returned to Khe Mon forest, did not know if he could hunt any animal but his mind went crazy. The mouth always muttered only a " solid " word. A short time later died .

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Many hunters in the Phong Nha - Ke Bang area have taken up the 'plan' to prepare hunting rifles, electrocuted . to kill the giant snake, but then for fear of rumors, they also give up .

And Mr. Phan Hong Thai and ranger soldiers in Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park see the giant snake as a friend, a true park ranger. 'With a large area, thin forces, some places in Phong Nha - Ke Bang are also destroyed by villagers, hunting rare and precious animals at Khe Mon, we are completely reassured because there are forest rangers snake '- Thai said.

Dr. Thomas Ziegler, the leading scientist of Cologne Zoo (Germany), who found 150 species of amphibian reptiles including many snake species, commented: " Phong Nha - Ke Bang is the kingdom of snakes. ".

Today the story of the giant snake is still recited by the people in the region with extremely thrilling and thrilling circumstances. I wonder if there is a giant snake here really there, but it really helped to protect the forest from many poachers and loggers.