Find what you love.
Look by place and by the kind of travel you enjoy, from food and culture to wildlife and the outdoors. Every business here was invited, recommended or reviewed by us, and none can pay to rank higher.
Travel your way.
Make it count.
Painted Circle is an independent travel guide to tours, stays and experiences run by people who care about the places they’re in. Find them here, then book directly with them, with no commission taken.
See what’s comingTravel you can feel.
Book direct.
When you’re ready, we send you straight to the business’s own website. You deal with the people who will actually welcome you, and they keep the whole booking.
Save as a Supporter.
Supporters get a discount or perk at every business on Painted Circle, and keep an independent travel guide going. See pricing →
We’re building our network in amazing places around the world.
Painted Circle grows one great business at a time. Do you know a great travel business we should know about? Tell us about it, and we’ll take it from there.
Nominations from travelers like you help us find great travel businesses for our guide. Show your love by nominating the businesses and guides you know and love.
Why Painted…
Because the world is colorful. We’re inspired by the people, places and ways of life you meet when you travel: the market full of spices you can’t name, the guide who grew up on the trail, the family that has run the same guesthouse for three generations.
Travel shouldn’t look the same everywhere. We help you find the people and places that make each destination its own, and make sure they’re the ones who benefit when you visit.
Why a Circle…
A circle has no top and no middleman. That’s how we think travel should work: you, the businesses that welcome you and the places you visit, connected directly.
We take no commission on bookings.
You book with the business itself, so what you spend reaches the people who earn it.
We don’t build a profile of you.
Your travel interests help you find things, and nothing more. We don’t sell your attention to advertisers.
We stay small on purpose.
We look for businesses doing great work rather than listing everyone, and we run lean so more of our effort goes into the guide.
Supporters keep it going.
Travelers and businesses who choose to support us fund Painted Circle, and Supporters save at every business here. That makes us part of the circle too: a small piece of a travel system that gives back more than it takes.
Why a Circle…
A circle has no top and no middleman. That’s how we think travel should work: you, the businesses that welcome you and the places you visit, connected directly.