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Muddy Volcanoes Berca Buzau Romania

Muddy volcanoes Berca (own photo)

Muddy Volcanoes at Berca, Buzau, Romania


Exploring the amazing Romanian Muddy Volcanoes from Berca, Buzau (Vulcanii noroiosi de la Berca, Buzau, Romania)

If you love nature, geology, spectacular landscapes, and challenging the unknown in real (not seeing them from the airplane, watching documentaries on TV from your comfortable coach, or browsing your friends' photos posted on Facebook :) ), you may enjoy such an experience - mud volcano - in Romania and explore it while getting off the beaten tracks, going out and around at your own pace.

So, one of the most spectacular and unique natural sites in Romania (and Europe) is the Mud Volcanoes - Vulcanii Noroiosi - from Berca, Buzau area - a "piece of the world" with an unusual shape, similar to lunar landscapes, that no traveler should miss.

The natural beauty of Romanian Berca Muddy Volcanoes - the Little Mud Volcanoes and The Big Mud Volcanoes - will simply fascinate you.

Muddy Volcanoes Buzau (own photo)
Have you ever seen a Muddy Volcano?


Few words about the Mud Volcanoes from Berca

The Muddy Volcanoes from Berca and Paclele Mari is a spectacular place and unique natural wonder, with a sort of lunar landscape aspect, located in the Buzau mountains, and with less powerful geological reaction (eventually, as one may expect).

The stunning view moonscape of mud volcanoes from Berca, Buzau county, has the same structure as the common volcanoes, occurring in similar processes, are generated by the eruption of mud, water, and natural gases, are not very high (~6m), but with important value, being both, a geological and a botanical natural reservation.

The entire site here is impressive for the viewer, offering a large palette of “Earth colors”: black, brown, gray, and greenish… sienna and chocolate borders on top of craters, white crusts of crystallized salt, and stripes of yellow sulfur mud.

Muddy Volcano Berca Buzau Romania
The geological phenomenon that created Berca Mud Volcanoes Buzau Romania
Mud volcanoes are created by eruptions of gases and liquids from inside the Earth, processed at a lower temperature than in usual active volcanoes, sending out the surface mix deposits of water, mud, and gases.

Vulcanii noroiosi Berca Buzau - Muddy volcanoes
Vulcanii noroiosi Berca Buzau - Muddy volcanoes (Photo Flickr Ciobyk)

In Romania, The Muddy Volcanoes from Berca is a unique reservation.

Similar geological phenomena can be found in a few other European countries:

- Italy (Northern Apennines and Sicily),
- Ukraine (Kerch Peninsula),
- Russia (Taman Peninsula),
- Azerbaijan.

Just backpack and enjoy your trip to feel and sense a mud volcano!


Fauna and flora around Mud Volcanoes in Romania

Around Mud Volcanoes usually is hot (especially during summer, when the temperature is about 40′C), a permanent bubbling mud that makes the soil very arid and salty.
In this desert-like landscape, the vegetation is poor and seldom, so only very few flowers or plants could be seen over this place, the “survivors” being Nitraria schoberi and Obione verrucifera.

The absence of vegetation around the cones creates a different aspect around muddy volcanoes, offering to the viewer a lunar landscape.
This phenomenon can be noticed in two separate places nearby Berca – the Little Mud Volcano and The Big Mud Volcano.

Volcanoes form no exception to the principles of universal order. They may appear to be physical flaws and to assume the character of accidents. The devastation which they have produced lead men to regard them very naturally as evils. But two things are certain. They arrive from the operation of natural causes which, however secret, hidden, and difficult of discovery, science may approach with a firm conviction that they are within its domain. And they sub-serve important and beneficent ends, some of which are already well understood.

IMPORTANT!
While visiting the Muddy Volcanoes you'll need:
- cameras,
- a bottle of water (in case you get thirsty while tramping around),
- and considering that these are really really muddy : ) ... better take proper sturdy shoes or tightly fastened sport sandals (in summer), that allows you to walk around the area without suffering, then scrub-down.

Mud clay
Mud clay - Photo Flickr Vienna Imports

And don't forget about the cosmetic use of the Volcano Mud!

The volcanic black mud is used successfully in cosmetic treatments and products:
- green volcanic mud, red volcanic mud,
- hair scalp volcanic mud hair mask,
- molding mud (with various fragrances),
- mud mask face mask,
- natural volcanic mud soap,
- plant fiber volcanic mud sponges,
- rich detox body mask,
- volcanic black mud crystal purifying facial mask whitening mud (firming and nourishing),
- volcanic magma mud mask,
- volcano mud detoxifying mask,
- volcanic mud oil-controlling facial mud,
- volcanic mud body beauty skincare cream,
- volcanic pore clay mask,
- volcanic spa mud mask.

When buying cosmetic products make sure they contain as many possible natural elements, are non-allergenic, fresh, and enough time till they’ll expire, have references from various customers.

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