The River Danube to Mud Volcanoes

The River Danube

We left Bucharest with our new awning fitted, see our last post https://jodeeontheroad.com/2024/01/14/romania-bucharest/

We were heading for the coast and to Constanta on the Black Sea coast but it was too far to go straight there.

We decided to stop at a park up on The River Danube, near a village called Borcea in the east of the country. We didn’t go into Borcea but it is actually a commune, the largest in Romania.

We stopped at a really lovely river park up complete with a big beach and a forest. We stayed for 2 nights as it was a great place to relax for a couple of days.

Constanta

Romania’s only coastline is the Black Sea coast above Bulgaria and it is just 245 Km long. The whole coastline did seem really busy and not many park ups but probably because it was summer and the school holidays had recently started.

We headed to Constanta on the recommendation of the owner of the Motorhome shop where we got our new awning.

The Wolf statue is a copy of a famous one in Rome, a female wolf nursing Romulus and Remus. The town was quite nice to have a wander around.

I was thrilled to be back in the sea. The beach itself was full of resorts but that certainly didn’t stop me, I even managed to use the resort shower after swimming! We stayed just 1 night.

Lake Razelm, near Sarichioi

Our next stop was another lake. It was almost like a car park with not much there except there were a couple of cafes round the edges. People came and went and it definitely seemed to be ok to stay there. As you can see it was a great swimming and yoga spot. I took advantage of both. Once again we only stayed for 1 night .

Brăila

Our next stop was Brăila, a city situated in Muntenia, Eastern Romania. We just treated it as a lunch stop.

Historic buildings include, The Greek Orthdox Church, an Art museum and The Clock Tower.

The best part of Brăila was the ‘Umbrella Street’. Every year in Spring there are ‘new umbrellas’ in the pedestrian area of Brăila. When we were there they were blue, yellow and red, Romanian national colours. As well as inviting visitors to take many photos they also provide shade. It looked fabulous too!

Vulcanii Noroioși Pâclele Mari

Vulcanii Noroioși Pâclele Mari, is a geothermal area renowned for its mud volcanoes located in Buzău County. These natural wonders are a rare geological phenomenon, characterised by the eruption of mud, water, and gases from the Earth’s crust and forming small cone shaped mounds.

The volcanic mud is corrosive and can irritate the skin. The mud comes from a depth of 3km! The mud is brought to the surface by explosive gas. Footprints left in the mud will stay there for months.

Mud volcanoes are much rare that other types of volcanoes

The landscape is very surreal and resembles the moon or something lunar. It certainly felt like we were walking on the moon

We arrived quite late in the day to see the mud pyramids, so we stayed the night in the car park close by. In the morning we headed off towards Transylvania. Our first destination was The Fortified Church of Prejmar which is where our next post will start followed by The city of Brașov.

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