The Largest Poppy Field in Olt, Romania | Let's travel together #362

If you ended up on this post thinking that you will find one of these over 1,000 words articles I usually write for my travel destinations, then I'm sorry to disappoint, but that is not going to be the case for today.

It's not because I had no inspiration for writing, but because it's a place that might represent nothing for some, but everything for others. And I am definitely in the 2nd category.

Actually, I am not even sure if it's the right place to post it since it's a poppy field, but considering that it turned out to be a travel destination for me, in between some other stops while driving, I thought it made enough sense to reserve an entire blog article for this.

What's so interesting about this poppy field, you might ask? Well, just as I mentioned already in the title, it represents the largest poppy field in Olt County.

It's not like I chased this and had it on my itinerary, but it quickly became a destination wish when seeing more and more poppies as I was driving closer to the southern side of Romania, eventually ending up close to a huge field of poppies.

I've seen quite a few similar places along the way, but they were not even a 3rd as big as what I've got to see on the territory of Studinița, and it was hard to stop the car there anyway. But over here, everything was aligned perfectly with a generous path in parallel with the main road, where I could leave the car and then have a quick walk to the poppy field.

As a kid, I remember seeing these kinds of plants quite often, especially while making my way to the countryside. But ever since I moved to Sibiu, which is located in the center of Romania and also at the foot of the mountains, this scenery became impossible to meet due to the whole different weather conditions and temperatures.

I was happy though to find the poppy field on my way to Turnu Magurele, as I felt twice grateful with getting a bit nostalgic for almost travelling back in time when I was a kid and I was taking pictures in these fields, but also for seeing such a large amount of poppies that have an incredible role for the soil health but also to feed small birds and rodents with the tiny seeds they release once the petals fall. Not to mention the large amount of pollen that attracts bees and bumblebees that are put on various risks lately due to global warming.

So, this is pretty much everything for today. I can't sadly offer proper guidance on how to reach this field as it wasn't marked on the map, but I met it on the main road just 100-200 meters after entering Studinița village. Even if I had marked it on the map, it could turn out useless since the flowers always pop up randomly and might as well be placed in a different part of the village next year.

What I can say, though, is that I had my trip at the beginning of June and the end of Spring and the beginning of Summer are always the best times of the year when these fields can be observed in more parts of the country, but also in Europe. So it's worth keeping an eye out for anything nature decides to bless you with, on a random drive like I also had on this end.

^{Gabriela Travels is a Curator for Worldmappin and Hive Gaming communities, but also the FOUNDER of "Festival Mania" who started this community from the passion of attending various festivals and with the purpose of encouraging more people to explore festivals all around the world and share their experiences.
At the same time, Gabriela is an independent Graphic Design Freelancer since 2019 completing over 600+ orders in this time and collaborating with various businesses and people from all over the globe.
Additionally, Gabriela has her own corner on the internet since 2017 where she writes various articles for her blog, the most popular being the travel ones (350+ articles written on this field), but also approaching other topics as well, like game and book reviews, lets plays, movie and series reviews, photography posts, cooking recipes and more, boosting the total number of articles written to 850+ blog posts.
Gabriela is also a gamer since she was 11 years old and gaming remains one of her biggest passions along with traveling, owning a YouTube channel for each of the two.}

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