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Visitors get up close and personal with snakes in Taiwan farm snake farm in Taiwan, home to more than 6,000 snakes, has become a popular tourist destination ahead of the upcoming year of the Snake. STORY: As Chinese people around the world are preparing to celebrate the upcoming lunar new year, a snake farm in southern Taiwan is becoming one of the most popular tourist destinations where visitors may see snakes eat, and eat snakes. The 6,600 square metres (71,042 square feet) World Snake King Education Farm in Tainan, Taiwan, is home to more than 6,000 snakes. A rattlesnake on the ground made noise with its tail while children watched in fear and fascination. The farm also stages feeding shows when the snakes are hungry. The farm hosts the big venomous snakes in Taiwan, such as the hundred-pacer, the kraits, and the green habu, and for the lunar new year it also showcases foreign species such as the gaboon viper, the black mamba, and the king cobra. One visitor, 41-year-old Chen Wan-er, said she wanted her son to learn about something he fears. "It's because we don't normally have the chance to see cobras this close, and it is also rare to see so many different cobra species. This is something my son is afraid of, so we want him to learn from a close distance, especially for something he doesn't usually have access to," she said. Her son, seven-year-old Lin En-chia, who was busy filming the snakes with a mobile phone, seemed to enjoy his experience. "I like the venomous snakes because I have been interested in them," he said. A private zoo keeper who has raised cobras for 28 years, Huang Guo-nan claims to be the first person to have successfully breed cobras in Taiwan. He said his farm aims to educate people about how to protect themselves from venomous snakes. "Our farm is special because we collect venomous snakes from around the world. While we are named as the World Snake King Education Farm, we must make visitors' experience educational. People's living standards have improved, and they often travel to other countries, but they must know what to do when they encounter venomous snakes, so I imported all the snakes from around the world, including the pythons, for everyone to learn about them," Huang said. Huang's restaurant offers a range of snake meals - from snake skin, snake soup, snake liver and snake tendons to snake eggs - at 200 Taiwan dollars (6.8 USD) per dish on average. Huang said there were many health benefits to eating snake. He also sells snake wine and a line of skin care products made of cobra extracts