If you need time to think and collect your thoughts between schools or between jobs, a gap year is definitely one of the solutions. Their popularity is still sky-high and it has inspired other options for those who love to travel, like “microgapping”.

And if you’re in the middle of planning your own gap year and need some inspiration, a new research by Alpha Travel Insurance has got you covered. The company analyzed 10,000 photos with the #gapyear hashtag to find out which destinations were the most popular.

Their final results include twenty-five cities. Can you guess which ones make up the Top Ten?

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