You sound like you'd be a handy kind of travel companion to have around. Discovered a king cobra on the floor in my hut on Ko Phayam last year when I got up for a pee in the night, but being a wimp stood on the bed and shooed it out with the light from my torch rather than fondling it.

Those snakes in the second picture look like rather large sea kraits???... I've only once seen one out of the sea though.... baby one on a beach on an island off Bandaneira (Indonesia)

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