Two weeks ago the whole team were reunited in Piura, a busy city in the desert of northern Peru. It was the first time Ed had seen the horses in nearly a month, and Quita's very first encounter. The plan then was to buy a cheap old pickup truck, and to ship the horses up to Cajamarca in a lorry within a week. Things never seem to work out quite that smoothly. First we should add an explanatory note regarding our decision to drive the horses for this stint. When ...

Macara to Piura: The desert bit and a Top Gear finish...Following our arrival in Macara, the border town with Peru, we left you with these words; 'all being well we might even cross the border in the next few days'. It took rather longer than that - a week to be precise - in which time Nick travelled nearly 500 miles in search of endless certificates, licenses and other paperwork which were required by the border bureaucrats. Sadly it seemed that their appetite f...

Click here for a video that gives a glimpse of the work that Bruce Organisation does in Peru.