Where to buy a bottle with a snake in Vietnam?

Based on our experience, bottles with snake, scorpion, frog, centipede and various other reptiles used to be freely available in many tourist places in Vietnam, and the price of 'snake whiskey' was only slightly higher than regular good whiskey. Today, however, it is not so easy to buy them; you will have to search.

During our last trip in 2024, we encountered bottles with a snake in only two places: at the main tourist market Ben Thanh in Ho Chi Minh City, and in an alcohol store in the resort area of Mui Ne. Although we were not specifically looking for such bottles, we visited a dozen cities and resorts, and a huge number of markets and shops during the trip. This information is for you to understand the scale, that it will not be so easy to find them. Moreover, the price has become very high now – they asked 600,000 dong for a bottle, which is almost 24 US dollars!!!

In conclusion, based on our experience, here is advice: you should look for a bottle with a snake in alcohol stores and famous tourist markets. But you will not find such in supermarkets and local markets, at least we have not come across any. Just in case, read everything you need to know about alcohol in Vietnam here - https://nashaplaneta.net/asia/vietnam/art-alkogolnye-napitki-vo-vietname

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