(1) A Spanish lawyer has given up his job and has sold his car to cycle around South America and perform as a clown.
Alvaro Neil, also known as 'Biciclown', is cycling his way around South America, performing his clown act free everywhere he goes.
(2) Alvaro, 36, from Asturias in the north of Spain, gave up his job last year when he realized that there was more to life than a nine to five job.
'You only live once and life in an office just isn't life,' he says.
So in October last year he set out on his South American adventure.
(3) He began his journey in La Paz, Bolivia and so far he has visited six countries (Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia) and cycled more than 15,000 kilometres.
The journey has already taken him thirteen months, and Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay lie ahead.
(4) He spends two or three months in each country, but he has never stopped off for more than five days in any one place.
Alvaro is getting by on a budget of three dollars a day and has slept in fire stations, police stations and churches, at 4,700 metres in the mountains of Peru and in the dry Atacama Desert of Chile.
(5) He has given about 20 performances to more than 8,000 people.
'My show includes juggling, music, magic, acrobatics and theatre.
I perform to the poorest people and my sole purpose is to bring them a little happiness,' says Alvaro.
At the end of one performance, a little girl ran up to him from the audience and gave him a big kiss and a hug.
This is one of his sweetest memories from the trip so far.
(6) He explains that the trip is a way of bringing together the three things he loves most in life: 'Cycling's in my blood, I'm a born clown and I enjoy helping other people.'
He is sponsored by the Clowns Without Frontiers organization and his mission is to bring a smile into the lives of the people he runs into on his travels.