Near Valladolid we found a bike-road parallel with the road. It looked more thrilling than the paved road, and even though we knew it was a bit risky due to the presence of our reptilian brothers, we took it.
And I almost had it... I was in the clouds—both with my thoughts and with my eyes—when suddenly my brother hold me back by my backpack and yelled: Stop! A snake! I looked in front of me and a few feel away there was a yard long, wound up snake. We knew its pattern, it was some kind of a viper.
With perfect timing, an old man arrived riding a bicycle. We pointed at the snake, he asked if it was alive, and when our answer was positive, he jumped off the bike, cut some young branches and practically smashed the poor thing. He told us it was the second most dangerous snake they have in the region. The most feared one is the coral snake. Personally, I pay a bit more attention since this experience...
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