article_snippet: Trekking through the dunes of the Sahara in 40 degree heat can be thirsty work even for camels.
article_snippet: And one for one of the animals taking a long swig from a beer bottle was just what they needed to refresh they.
article_snippet: A camel takes a swig from a beer bottle on a short refreshment stop while trekking across the Sahara desert .
article_snippet: Tour guides filled the beer bottles with water for the camels to drink as temperatures reached as high as 40 degrees .
article_snippet: But rather than swigging down beer the beer bottles had actually been filled with water by Tour guides for the camels to drink as temperatures reached as high as 40 degrees.
article_snippet: Photographer Joao Victor Bolan, who captured the image, said: 'The picture where a camel drinks from a bottle, it was obviously just for fun.
article_snippet: They don't usually drink too often and while we were there, I hadn't seen any camel drinking. '
article_snippet: we only made a short stop - I would say not more than 15 minutes - but judging by how fast they drank it, I guess they were thirsty.'
highlights_snippet: a group of tourists made a quick stop to allow the animals a chance to get a drink .
  
highlights_snippet: One of the camels was snapped taking a long swig from a beer bottle .
  
highlights_snippet: But rather than drinking beer a beer bottle was actually filled with just water .