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The Berca Mud Volcanoes
Do you remember when you were a child and used to play with… mud? I do and I believe if you haven’t enjoyed baking “mud-pies”, you missed one of the great funs of childhood. But wait! There’s another way you can enjoy mud and that is… the Mud (or Muddy) Volcanoes in Buzau, Romania.
GRAB A PIECE OF THE MOON
The scenery you encounter at Berca – Arbanasi (30 km away from the city of Buzau) is similar to a science fiction movie set or rather like a reproduction of the lunar soil.
Condensed in two ares – Paclele Mici (The Little Mud Volcanoes) and Paclele Mari (The Big Mud Volcanoes) – these unusual formations of mud, hot gases and water make a unique and a bizarre place you will not want to miss when travelling to Romania. The locals reffer to it as “the gates of hell” and associate it with evil spirits and malefic forces. But beyond any popular tradition, this vast solitary landscape is dreadful and oddly beautiful at once.
ONE OF ROMANIA'S BEST KNOWN GEOLOGICAL RESERVES
The Berca Muddy Volcanoes are a natural reservation, one of the best known and well preserved geological reserves in Romania. It is unique in Romania and in Europe, being the only place where they can be observed so closely, though similar phenomena have been known to take place in Italy (northern Apennines and Sicily), Ukraine (in the Kerch Peninsula) and Azerbaijan as well.
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Huw says:
Very engaging article, good content split from page 1 to 2. I want to visit now! Would love to hear one short traditional story about the gates of hell on page 1.
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