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Avada Destinations is an unique travel platform, providing luxurious holidays at unbeatable prices. For this, I blame Daniel Kalder and his book ‘Misplaced Cosmonaut’ ( reviewed by DT here ). Having read it a number of years ago, long earlier than I had ever set foot in the Former Soviet Union, his description of the Kalymk capital conjured up photos of an absurd wasteland on the sad periphery of Europe, trembling below the megalomania of a chess-loving, enemy-assassinating dictator whereas slowly disintegrating into the dust of the infinite steppe surrounding it. I enjoyed the book and its description of Kalymkia, and was intrigued by idea of a Buddhist enclave within Europe which was obsessive about chess and had nothing of any consequence to supply the world. Although then an armchair desolationist as but uninitiated to the joys of travel in the fringes of the Soviet empire, the guide sparked my … Read More