Mud Volcanoes

The mud volcanoes in Buzău are the only dwarf volcanoes from Europe! Special, enigmatic and beautiful, in a strange sense, the volcanoes are shrouded by terrifying legends. The dwarf mud volcanoes from Romania is a rare phenomena encountered around the world. The volcanoes are located in the curvature of the Carpathian mountains. In Romania there are other types of mud vulcanoes, like the ones in Ocna Sibiu, Homorod, Bazna, but those are different from the ones in Buzău. The volcanoes are situated on two mountain slopes, called Paclele Mari and Paclele Mici, from Buzău county. They emerged as a result of earth’s magma. The natural gases, located at over 3000 meters depth, in contact with the clay soil, cross the groundwater, creating through this process the mud volcanoes. The mud that comes from 3000 meters deep is very liquid, being strongly pushed by the natural gases. The area has the appearance of the moon’s surface, a scene out of science-fiction movie. Hovewer, it is a fascinating landscape, beautiful, but at the same time, terrifying. The heat of the sun creates huge cracks in the wet soil. Incredibly important, from a geological and botanical point of view, the natural reserve of the mud volcanoes in Buzău has it’s own flora and fauna, depicted by a diversity of protected plants and animals, declared monuments of nature!

The Bison Reservation

The Bison reservation from Vama Buzăului was opened in 2008 and it spreads over an area of 12 acres of hills, 80 acres of forest, with a total area of 98 acres. Alike this place, in the bison reservations from Romania there is an attempt at breeding and the re population of our country’s forests. Incredible specimens, the bisons from Valea Zimbrilor Reservation are especially massive and impressive, often being selected and brought here from countries like Switzerland, Austria and Italy. At the same time, the reservation offers the opportunity of observing the interesting families of the Carpathian deer, and many other experiences.