vulcanii noroiosi (muddy volcanoes))

The Muddy Volcanoes are located near Berca commune, in Buzau County. There are four different fields with volcanoes, but the most famous are those at Paclele Mici and Paclele Mari. Those at Paclele Mici can be traced by the red Muddy Volcanoes sighn, where there is a parking lot, a restaurant, a bathroom, showers and a souvenir shop. There is a 500 meters walking path from the parking lot to the volcanoes. You can see how the volcanoes are errupting and the most interresting part, how the relief was formed around them, as it looks like on the Moon. If it's rainy you should bring for sure changing shoes as it can be very muddy and everybody can bring home real souvenirs from there on the shoes. There is a parking fee of 3 lei per car and an entrance fee of 4 lei per person.

I have visited the muddy volcanoes with my family, and I am not really sure if this is how the tour should actually be, but we had lots of fun. The volcanoes are not that impressive. These are medium size lifts of mud, they measure a few meters high. And you can climb the so called volcanos really easily and look at the mud that "boils" inside the cones. The mud is cold and the "bolling" effect is due to the gas that comes from inside the earth. The volcanoes are surrounded by channels used by the bursting mud for flowing out towards lower grounds.We loved to climb the volcanoes and discover the ones that had a more powerful burst of gas, we run accrossed this austere landscape, we jumped over the ditches. It was fun and very educational. In Romania there is no active lava volcano so seeing a miniture unnagressive smaller scale muddy volcano was something really interesting.

There's been a long time since a wanted to see the Muddy Volcanoes and I finally had.The big one turned up to be a small dissapointment since they arent that big...I did enjoy the little mudvolcanoes at Paclele Mici though I have to tell you a small tip: You dont have to leave your car at the parking lot because you will have to climb nearly 2 km by foot. If you go straight on the road you can get there by car... They lack informational panels and the staff doesnt know much.besides that its a really interesting and special place to see.

I decided , me and my girlfriend , to go out from Bucharest for 2 days.So, we decided about Muddy Volcanoes.What to say? We have experience in travel a lot without car , only by train or...something else.The real problem of this volcanoes is that this country doesn't know to revealed the potential of tourism.To get there, is a real adventure...by train, and then by bus to another bus and then a small bus .A long journey...and when you are there you realize that is not that to attractive.But, is ok if you want an escape in your weekend ... P.S. : If you look for something nice, try to go in Bozioru( it is so quite ) and then to visit Trovantii and some caves in the mountains.

A really great, interesting landscape. Great for a geology lesson. Apart from the mudvolcanoes themselves, it's interesting to see how over time rainwater erroded the mud deposits forming canyons, riverbays etc. Unfortunately the place lacks tourist information, apart from a panel at the entrance, there's not really much information provided. TIP: the little mudvolcanoes (Paclele Mici) are far more interesting, there's more activity there, altough they are smaller, and there are less visitors. Downside is that the asphalt is in a worse state on the way there than it is to the Big mus volcanoes (Paclele Mari)

It's a special place, as natural space. But it is not possible that such a phenomenon is so little revealed by authorities. On site, there is not information panels about the appearance, evolution and phenomenon.Stefan

I visit the place at least one time per year for cycling experiences.Children love the place, you need high effort for keeping them away from playing with the mud.Enjoy!

I first got to Paclele Mari and the sand and the hills gave me the impression that I was on the Moon, just like Neil Armstrong. At Paclele Mici the volcanoes are not so tall, but they are very active and they make bubbles all the time. It is an interesting place to visit, especially for children, who enjoy the muddy bubbles.

The greatest landscape in Romania,seems like you are on a different planet. Worth to visit !!! Explore nature !!!

I was there in June 2013, the place looks good quite selenar. I was lucky to be there before a loaded coach of teenagers so I had a few minutes of deserted landscape and peace to explore and photograph.It seems like a different planet, as previous reviews say. Also if it is raining they don't allow visitors inside (or that is what they say).What I didn't like was the fact that there was no little note explaining how they are formed, what are they etc. There was a list of plants that grow in the area, thank you very much, but I didn't see any explanation about how the volcanoes are formed, what are they. where do they come from. In a different country they would have a 8 or10-minute film showing what happens inside the earth, drawings and illustrations, a short history of the place etc. That is why I believe it is undersold. I would have liked to spend more time there (after a 3-hour drive) but there is not much to do. They sell magnets and postcards though and there is a restaurant 20 metres away.The good thing is that you can go very close and even touch the mud if you want, although there is written somewhere that it is not recommended as it contains some harsh substances. In a different country with health and safety gone crazy one wouldn't be allowed to get that close to the mud. So another positive: you have the freedom to explore nature and touch its work at your own dermic risk.

It's one of those places, where nature leaves you speechless, seems like you are on a different planet. Worth to visit them.

Naturally, this in one of the greatest landscape in Romania, and maybe in all Europe. They are small volcanoes who spit from time to time mud, and all the area is full of mud ( dry or liquid ).And both areas ( Paclele Mici and Paclele Mari, that means Small Mist and Big Mist ) have nice vegetation surroundings.You have to see both areas, because they are different: Paclele Mari have bigger volcanic cones, but Paclele Mici have small mud lakes atop volcanic cones.You can reach easily there, from the national road 10 who links Buzau with Brasov, you have to pass Buzau river in Berca village and the you just have to follow the signs.There is a restaurant at Paclele Mari, not very attractive, and at Paclele Mici, 3-4 km from Paclele Mari ( you can see from the top of one, the other area ), you only have o small shop.If you want to eat properly, tasty and with a very large menu, when you come back to the national road 10, in the village Satuc, you have to continue to Brasov, and after 10 - 15 km you reach to Magura Hotel ( after the village Magura ), a three star hotel and with a well known restaurant and terrace, wher you will have difficulty to find a free table in the summer afternoon weekend.The fee is almost invizible, 2 euro for an adult and 1 for kids.

Beautiful and really unique landscape, a must do in Romania. It's easy to reach by car and there is also a restaurant/pension at Paclele Mari, not awesome facilities but really nice staff and acceptable food. Personally I liked more the ones at Paclele Mici ones.Looking forward for an English version of the site and more varied transportation facilities :D.

It is an interesting place to visit, not too far from Bucharest, it can be a one day trip. There are 2 sites, very close one from another. The "volcanoes" are actually small craters bubbling mud and gas.

Interresting. The roads towards there are pretty poor especially to Paclele Mici which has no tarmac.