Our passengers are happy. They don't sit up all night with their heads against the window, but sleep lying down on fitted sheets over mattresses on raised platforms and bunk beds, listening to beautiful music as they doze off. In the morning they've usually arrived somewhere incredible! By day we swim, cook breakfast, explore caves, climb mountains, raft downstream, stand under waterfalls, walk through forests, cook dinner, build campfires, visit towns, meet people, or just plain take it easy.

You're welcome to join the adventure, friends and fun. The settings will be national parks and the finest and least visited beaches, deserts, forests, hot springs, mountains, and waterfalls that our years of experience and good-natured drivers can find.

Green Tortoise Adventure Travel began in 1974 with one sturdy but well used bus and the realization that beautiful places, good food, and sociable people with an enthusiasm for life and nature, were really the only essentials for economical and gratifying travel experiences. Since then, over 500,000 folks and lots of repeat riders from all over the world have enjoyed the beauty, excitement and inspiration of North and Central America, in the company of gentle, unusual people, aboard our well maintained, "stretch out and sleep while we drive" coaches.

There's nothing else like the Green Tortoise - PERIOD. Our buses are beautiful, with names and literally millions of miles of character.