Although I am obssesed to explore less known places offered by nature at no cost, not for a couple of times I mentioned that it's a lot better for some of these to remain forever unknown to people.
It's not like some parts of Romania wouldn't deserve a bit more popularity when it comes to tourists, but because people are the worst species that currently exists on this planet, and I think we can all agree on that by simply looking on how life currently looks like, with wars going on, lots of global warming and pollution, but also ruined places at every step for no reason.
On a similar note, today's post is not going to be one of those that I recommend visiting because the images will speak for themselves.
While not too long ago I came here with an article about The Living Stones from Daia, which represents such a unique place for Romania but which was fully ruined by the locals who picked it as a 'destination' for their garbage, today's post is not too far from that situation either.
Actually, this time the main focus is on the ghosts of what we used to call 'living stones' or 'trovants' because the only ones that can be found in Garbova are remains of it, while pretty much everything was stolen by the locals who picked the natural monuments as decorations for their own courtyards.
For some it might sound funny, for others it might equally hurt as it felt when I faced that situation, because this kind of living stones were actually quite rare to observe on the territory of Romania until a while ago, when a few more locations popped up here and there, mentioning that the mysterious stones started to appear.
From my experience visiting these kinds of places, there were always two types of people. The first one brings lots of stories with him, such as the stones are actually growing up and share a weird energy while being around them, while the 2nd category is that of admiring what nature blessed us with, since we can all agree that these are not some of the most common stones one would see.
Their most common shape is that of a sphere, but they also can have some other shapes like that of a UFO or irregular shapes. But in all cases, they are quite large and never have a regular shape, which makes them easy to be observed even from a distance.
Sadly, that was not the case when I visited The Living Stones from Garbova because all you could see were only parts of these, or the scratches left on the stone walls by excavation vehicles that made their way here with the strong purpose of extracting all these stones before they even got the chance to make it to the surface on their own.
It's sad, but it's the cruel reality.
In fact, funny or not, if you set up your GPS on Google Maps towards "Trovantii din Gârbova", the GPS indications will stop on the main road, which is also facing the main courtyard where all these stones were taken to.
On a similar note, we were fooled to believe that that was the actual spot of the trovants but got confused when we noticed locals looking weird at us, so we ended up driving on an unpaved road just to lead to the disaster of not finding any living stone, but only remains of it.
And if you thought that it might be just a coincidence, keep in mind that our thoughts were confirmed by two locals who crossed by coming from working in the field and told us right away that there are no trovants left to be seen because they were all stolen by some neighbours everyone knows but don't have the power to do anything because the police simply refuses to take any action.
So, along with all the mixed emotions that I felt back then, I still managed to snap a picture for the sake of not skipping my personal challenge to have a selfie in every place I visit, but I'd lie by saying that I had a real smile on my face.
It was also the kind of reminder no one wishes to feel during their trips, that some places offered by nature are meant to stay forever unknown. Sadly, with the quick evolution of real estate and seeing more and more houses being raised in places that you wouldn't guess to see how large parts of nature are being cut off for the sake of a greedy person who wants a villa right in the middle of it, these kinds of places are hard to remain unknown.
And the biggest disadvantage comes when these places don't even have the time to become popular because they are being ruined way before becoming something on Google Maps or having some news written about them. That's when all these places are literally playing their lucky card, whether they will be surrounded by cool locals or not. For the trovants from Garbova, it was definitely not about cool locals...
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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[//]:# ([//]:# (!worldmappin 45.85317 lat 23.72296 long The genuine proof that some places should never be known by people d3scr))
