Two women hiking in the mountains of Shangrao, East China's Jiangxi Province, made a hasty retreat after encountering two snakes, shortly after jumping on a patch of ground they mistook for a "natural" trampoline, according to local media reports. Photo: web

 
Two women hiking in the mountains of Shangrao, East China's Jiangxi Province, made a hasty retreat after encountering two snakes, shortly after jumping on a patch of ground they mistook for a "natural" trampoline, according to local media reports.

Last Sunday, a woman surnamed Li from Jiangxi and a friend went hiking. During their hike, they unexpectedly found a patch of ground about 50 cm in diameter covered with fallen leaves very "soft and springy", mistook it for a "natural trampoline." They jumped on it multiple times and filmed the scene, Cover News reported.

There was no cell service in the mountains, and Li had been hiking and filming for nearly three hours before they encountered the snakes, which prompted a rapid retreat that took them an hour and a half.

After the video circulated, some netizens speculated the spot might be a king cobra nest, saying the "trampoline" resembled one shown in a nature film. 

An expert dismissed the claim, noting that king cobra nests are dome-shaped mounds of leaves, twigs, and soil, about one meter in diameter and 50 centimeters high, and wouldn't be springy enough to bounce on.