ศาลเจ้าแม่จงอางและลูก (แม่ขวัญ) ถนนพระราม2 (ซอย 48)
Sala Chao Mae Ngu Chong Ang and Look Shrine (Mae Khwan - name of mother snake)
(จงอาง jong-aang = king cobra)
Location:
13°39'59.0"N 100°26'42.1"E 13.666380, 100.445020
On Rama II road (northern side) next to Soi 48.
800 m east of Central Plaza Rama II.
Directions:
I went by bus 141 (aircon, expressway, Chulalongkorn University ม.จุฬาฯ to Samae Dam แสมดำ) from Rama IV road (Bon Gai ป่อนได่ stop opposite Soi Ngam Duplee), 19 Baht, 16:50-17:45. Get off at stop Sala Chao Mae Ngu ศาลเจ้าแม่งู (next to pedestrian overpass, directly opposite the shrine; stop before is Wat Lao วัดเลา between Soi 49 and 51).
There is one website with a quality article in English which has the story of this place: The Shrine of the Cobra Queen and the Kids - Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.bangkokpicture.com/unusual/cobraqueen.php
At night, the place is illuminated and a light bulb hanging out of the window and food on the ground attracts snakes from adjacent empty plot of land:
View from pedestrian overpass:
Sidewalk is just 20 m apart, without fence, from the place where the snakes eat every night!
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Good find of you-never ever realised myself that this was this. Have passed there quite a few times and only thought it was just another Chinese shrine/temple.
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