For our first true global collaboration between the seven editions of CN Traveller worldwide—we asked 100 locals in 100 countries what they love about their hometowns.

As the world opens up, as travel continues its precarious return, we want you to find your own reason to travel—and we wanted the coolest people across the world to give it to you. After all, travel is as much about people as it is places, and there are locals around the world who are eagerly waiting for you to visit the places they call home. Fittingly, our cover star is poet and writer Joshua Muyiwa, who gives us an inside track on Bengaluru’s sights and sounds as a mixed-race, queer person.