well, it was a cloudy morning and it was about to rain.. I went into my garden and passed some mango trees.. then I heard something like a cat hissing but much more rapidly.

I made my way to the sound thinking that something has happened to my neibour's cat but then i notices the sound was coming from beside me.

I turned and saw this Equitorial spitting Cobra with its hood opened up, curled around the stem of the mango tree, at face level with me.. i was a foot away from it.

i just bolted out of there .. it was like a blur...

the snake escaped...now i am traumatized... if it had bitten my face it would have been the end of me..