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Buzau county

Wallachia

Buzau is a county located in southeastern Romania, in the Muntenia region. It borders Brașov and Covasna counties to the northwest, Prahova to the west, the Ialomița to the south, Brăila to the east, and Vrancea to the northeast.

Highlights

The Eagle’s Lake

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The Eagle’s Lake is on the east side of the slope Malaia at the altitude of 1420 meters in the Siriu Mountains exists The Eagle’s lake, or The Bottomless Lake. A lake, two names, two legends: 
The Eagles’ Lake because here come eagles, in the time, to drink the water life, here they teach their babies how to fly.

The Bottomless lake because a shepherd let his flock stray, threw his stick in the lake, and left. After one year he found his stick in the waters of the Danube and came back to his sheep.
 
The route is medium in difficulty, it takes 3 hours in the summertime and it starts on the Chalet 14 chairs to Siriu then continues to the village Gura Siriului, then Teharau Rock, Buzau River, The Black Valley chalet, and to the Alpine Empty Winds Gate. From there it comes to The Eagle’s Lake.

The water of the lake on the southern side is warm but that is because the rest is cold as ice. From time to time the trout splash jumping after the flies. A slope from the neighborhood is the only place in the Buzau Mountains where can be seen Black Goats.

The Mud Volcanoes

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At 20 km from Buzau on the right side of the river with the same name, the road which crosses the mountains to Brasov passes through the village called Berca. Here, the resources of the underground (ballast, clay, sand) were exploited intensely throughout history, but the real treasure is the mud volcanoes. Frequent manifestations of the oil and gas deposits buried deep under the sediments appear along the Carpathians from the west to east.
 
A lunar landscape will be found by the traveler which crosses to the other side of the river Buzau. Going 12 km to the north at the village Policiori will be discovered the Mud Volcanoes. They are so named because of the conical form and the constitution of the material which composes them.
Because of the strange noises caused by the gasses which emerge from the mud the locals named their kettles.

The craters are usually small but are more than 3 meters high. These structures were made because the mud was driven to the surface of the ground by the natural gas along some deep fault which cuts one of the most impressive structures made by oil and gas in this region, the anticlines Satuc - Berca -Arbanasi - Niculesti. 

Natural Park „Living Fire“

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The reservation is situated on a side of the Milcov River, close to the village Andreiasu de Jos, 37 km from Focsani.
The living fire is made of hydrocarbon deposits that erupt to the surface. Because shales do not exist here, we can’t have the Mud Volcanoes. The number of fires varies the flames having hights from 10-50 cm.
When it rains the flams disappear.