Romania’s Mud Volcanoes: Dreams of Lunar Landscapes

I was about 8 when I first experienced the mud volcanoes in Scorțoasa and I remember my father telling me “Like the moon, this is where dreams are born.”

Mud volcanoes in eastern Romania. Shutterstock

Not too long ago, I set out to show my baby boy and my husband a wondrous place I remembered from my childhood in Romania. 

I was about 8 when I first experienced the mud volcanoes in Scortoasa, and I remember my father, back then a captain in the Romanian army, telling me, “Like the moon, this is where dreams are born.”