Best Instagram Photos of 2013

Check out a year’s worth of beautiful travel photos Instagrammed by T+L fans.

Instagram users not only hail from all over the world, but they travel it too. Just consider the list of top five Instagrammed cities of 2013, which hops from New York (No. 1) to Bangkok, then Los Angeles, London, and São Paulo, Brazil.

Throughout the year, we’ve encouraged T+L’s Instagram fans to share their travel photos using the hashtag #TLPicks or #TLTransportMe. Our favorites include images from popular cities like London as well as off-the-beaten-path destinations like Guanajuato, Mexico.

Wherever they go, T+L’s fans have captured vivid travel experiences, from rock climbing in Utah to an up-close encounter with a giraffe in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert. And they’ve enhanced them too, using filters and features like selective focus.

In reviewing the tagged travel photos, we came across Instagrammers who are new to the Travel + Leisure community, along with a few repeat engagers, like @minerand and @sweetdivergence.

Take a look at their most compelling Instagrams from 2013, and share your Instamoments with us in the New Year.

In the wake of Poseidon. If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be?
—@ravenreviews

A pensive Moai indeed #Easter #Island
—@jbeebs18

#ullapool #Scotland
—@pmistyhn

Most dedicated effort for an #instajump I’ve ever seen!
—@sweetdivergence

Imperial Forums, Rome
—@minerand

Shh, Chicago is America’s best-kept secret!
—@sweetdivergence

Final one on the crazy elephant.
—@minerand

A visit to #Carcassonne has been on my bucket list for a long time. Breathtaking.
—@sweetdivergence

Daydreaming about those endless adventures in Utah #takemeback #cantwaitforthissummer #rockclimingfordays
—@murphyslaw_

Beautiful Monaco! #travel #honeymoon
—@floridagirl34210

I can’t stop posting Hawaii shots. Here’s a kayaker on the Na Pali Coast.
—@andystenz

Shot of the week. Glamorous #HONGKONG
—@willrong

Remember “Twin Peaks”?
—@gjsmith89

Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, Madrid. I pretended Hemingway was with me. #madrid #toro #bullfighting
—@jnasa

The Plitvice Lakes look like they belong in Middle Earth. The best part of visiting in the off season is that we didn’t have to fight off hoards of other visitors and the changing of the leaves only enhanced the beauty of the lakes.
—@captainandclark

He’s big…and I hear his name is Ben.
—@jnasa

Adult female giraffe at Kalahari Desert, Botswana
—@minerand

Such a stunning spectacle at the central of Australia, the biggest rock on earth.
—@theofatty

It’s beginning to look a lot like fall in #Colorado
—@ontippytoes

#Positano #colorful #style #Amalfi
—@muratdincler

—@londonspop

Paris #realtime #ParisLight
—@carinaokula

Part of me lives in this gorgeous town forever.
—@willrong

Another one from Saint Emilion, such a beautiful place. #bordeaux #darlingweekend
—@carinaokula

“Be a voice, not an echo.” Icefield Parkway, Peyto Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta. “Do you see the fox?”
—@pedrino5