Yang Hongchang, boss of the snake rearing company holds snakes at the snake farm in Zisiqiao village
Yang Hongchang, boss of the snake rearing company holds snakes at the snake farm in Zisiqiao village, Zhejiang Province June 15, 2011. Residents of Zisiqiao Village, also known as the snake town, raise over 3 millions snake a year for the food and medicinal proposes. Reuters

Zisiqiao village in Zhejiang Province, China, is known as the “snake town”, breeding over 3 million snakes a year for food and medicinal purposes.

According to Yang Hongchang, head of a snake breeding business in the village, the farmers there breed not cows or pigs but multiple kinds of snakes to meet the increasing demand. Some of the snakes, according to Yang, are also exported overseas to United States, Germany, Japan, and Korea.

Below are some of the exotic pictures from the “snake town” Zisiqiao village.

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