the living museum

what do you get when you cross poisonous snakes, careless keepers and dilapidated cages? you get musee vivant du bujumbura! this place is crazy - one safety violation after another. my heart was pounding with nervous excitement the entire time we were there. i'm not sure why though...i love reptiles. maybe it was the black tree snake that was thrown on the ground in front of us. or was it the python that i held in my arms? it's possible that standing a metre away from an uncaged gaboon viper being provoked to strike got me going. it's also a little unnerving to have the door to the hooded cobra cage left open and unattended for any amount of time. musee vivant is completely ridiculous and utterly unnecessary....but i wouldn't have it any other way.