& no, Papillion was not involved...

Seemed exciting at the time. First snake I've seen in years...

It'd just rained very heavily, and there are many klongs in our village with plenty of construction and a new drainage system having just been put in, so I suppose it was a likely time to see them(?).

I jumped on a motorbike taxi to the end of the road, and half way up the soi, just rounding a bend he screeched to a halt as if a pick-up was hurtling towards us - but I couldn't see a car, then I noticed a snake making it's way across the road from a little klong to a construction site. We were probably about 3 to 4 metres away and the little fella (about 1 metre, perhaps a little more...) angled himself half towards us, which sent the taxi driver scurrying backwards and seemiingly quite afraid. The snake started to go across the road again maybe leaving enough room for us to drive through, but as the taxi driver started to move forward the snake angled towards us again and raised his head a little, he was quite thin, not very thin, looked athletic, a big snake, but only just, certainly not a very big snake. The driver scurried backwards again making girlie noises then we waited for about a minute for the snake to fully cross into the construction site before heading on our way. The snake was in no hurry and didn't seem particularly afraid or overly aggressive, but had an edge to him/her, if we'd gotten within a couple of metres it would have had a go...

So, thinking it must be a Cobra or Krait or something, I went onto the internetty to look for pics.

Can you guess what it was? I live in Bangkok BTW, quite a built up area, but on the outskirts, so only a KM or 2 from rural land.

I'll post a pic of what I think it was after a few guesses.