Ben Lerwill Contributors

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Kyrgyzstan & Comoros features Few travel writers are as intrepid (or relentless) as Mark – as seen this month in a pair of articles that go from Kyrgyzstan’s steppe (p40) to the little-seen Comoros Islands (p130). My top travel icon: “The Varanasi ghats (river-side steps) in India are a window on ancient facades, mythology, the Ganges, aarti fire rituals and sunrises to die for – quite literally, if you visit the cremation ghats.” Head to head Ben Lerwill has visited and written about islands as diverse as Barra and Barbados, so he enjoyed putting together this issue’s Malta vs Madeira feature on page 34. (Barra gets his nod over Barbados, by the way.) My top travel icon: “Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth NP. It’s undervisited, so the wildlife encounters are that much more special. I’ll never forget watching a leopard on a dawn hunt.”

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