Yeah.. Snakes, like "two steps" as we used to call them, because that's about how far you got, before your dead! Also, you Need to be looking "UP" for snakes.... Boa Constrictors are quite common over in Nam and they like to "hang out" in trees.. watching for their next meal to "drop in, on"... as well as King Cobra's and Pythons. Otherwise, it's Beautiful country, and the damage from when we were there has "healed" quite well... thankfully. I was there from Feb. 68 til mid Nov. 70.... and made a Lot of close friends during my last two "tours".... was up in the A-Shau Valley (up to the "DMZ") for 13 months in my first assignment. I could speak & understand Vietnamese fairly well, by the time I left.... but, have lost much of it since then, as I've had no one to communicate with that spoke Vietnamese.