Bled among Lonely Planet's top ten Instagram destinations

Ljubljana, 20 November - Slovenia's lakeside resort of Bled has been named among top ten Instagram winter destinations by the leading tourist guide book publisher, Lonely Planet.

Bled Lake Bled with the island and a church on it in the Julian Apls, north-western Slovenia. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA File photo

Bled
Lake Bled with the island and a church on it in the Julian Apls, north-western Slovenia.
Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
File photo

Lonely Planet compiled the list of the most popular winter destinations on Instagram based on calculations made by the company Focus Clinics.

The list was topped by the Swiss capital of Bern with the hashtag #Bern being used by more than a million times, according to Lonely Planet.

The second place, with more than 930,000 mentions, went to the US ski resort Aspen and the third to the northern lights over Norway.

The top three are followed by France's Chamonix, the Yosemite National Park in the US, the Swiss Zermatt, US's Yellowstone National Park, Bled, the Czech town of Česky Krumlov and Grindelwald in Switzerland.

The hashtag #Bled has appeared 306,285 times on Instangram.

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