Ideal Sex in der Wüste – Luxor Holidays amidst the Misery of the World. 砂漠での理想的なセックス 〜 世界の悲惨さの中でのルクソール休暇。

Lunch at a hotel on the Red Sea Coast.
Fat, sluggish, half-naked women’s bodies from all over the world, red-burned.
Egyptian women, self-confident and without compulsion, wearing the black Niqab in the hotel. When eating with a Niqab, the cloth that covers the face is slightly lifted to open the mouth so that food and drinks can be guided to the mouth without completely exposing the face.
These black Niqab wearing Egyptian women, together with their family at the table, eating lunch.

Close-by sits the Japanese feminist and suffers mental stress.
After 2 days of vacation, he loses his appetite watching these overweight, sick, young women from all over the world, gorging themselves.

Outside, Egyptian children are waiting for the tourists, begging for Euro-coins. Everyone is belling for Baksheesh. It starts at the airport at the time of entry: The Egyptian visa issuer requires Baksheesh.
There are no price tags on the goods. Everything must be negotiated. You or the seller could become angry, noisy.
Psycho-stress that ruins my holidays. I’m in the midst of the Misery of the World. My hard currency has been forcibly converted as “personal” Development Aid.
Since 1980, Islam has been enshrined in the constitution as a state religion, Sharia is the main source of legislation.
According to current Egyptian law, unmarried Egyptian women are not allowed to live in a room with a foreign man etc., therefore the hotels on site are obliged to comply with Egyptian law applicable to them and must reject such guests.
At some hotels/resorts it’s forbidden to leave the hotel area by night. Obviously too dangerous for foreign tourists.
When driving by car through the country, you will be stopped and checked by military controls “everywere” (at important intersections). Also travel buses, which, however, are waved through so as not to upset the foreign tourists. Public transportation in the countryside: a disaster.
 Driving by night, alone or with locals, means the “road to nowhere”.
Since 2014, the Egyptian president’s style of government has been predominantly described as authoritarian or dictatorial and repressive. According to the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, the president leads a military dictatorship that militarises the Egyptian state and its economy, and has led the country to the brink of economic collapse.
Egypt has been facing economic collapse for years. The state is highly indebted, the rating agencies, such as Moody’s, rate Egypt with “Caa1”, ergo US$ bonds at junk level, in the highly risky default area.
 Although the inflation rate was reduced from 38% (September 2023) to 15% (May 2025), tourists continue to be begged to exchange their Dollars or Euros for the local currency at the black-market rate.
 In addition, poverty is growing: The number of Egyptians who, according to the United Nations, live on less than 3.65 US Dollars a day has risen from less than 20 to over 24 percent in recent years. Youth unemployment – which was already very high before the 2011 Arab Spring – is now over 30 percent. This situation was contributed not least by a corrupt mismanagement, led by military generals, which further increased the national debt burden by financing expensive prestige projects such as the new administrative capital in the desert, the enormous increase in arms investment and a planned high-speed train network.
As a globetrotter with over 50 years of experience, I can easily compare some places in Egypt with Calcutta in India. Or Atacama in northern Chile, where the houses do not need roofs. 

In 1973 I first entered African soil, El Aaiún, Spanish Sahara.


Now we have the year 2025, and I can say without exaggeration that I spent my summer holidays in the Misery of the World.
 A tunnel vision should not be tolerated. It is not appropriate to take a limited, one-sided view when you travel to a country as a tourist. More desirable to think and act openly and comprehensively than to focus on just a small slice of swimming-pool-reality and hotel-night-parties with permitted alcohol in an Islamic state.
Save me from kitschy souvenirs that collect dust at home (Staubfänger), thanks to the experiences of my parents and relatives!

Archaeological excavations still seen as “work in progress”. That’s really amazing. The Egyptian Overtourism Experience as Open End. History on Egyptian culture can be easily researched, viewed in abundance via the internet, incl. youtube/vimeo. Try to “de-code” some attached pics. Self-censorship has been applied.
Luxor – Tokyo, July 2025
Mario A

Appendix:

Belly dancing is huge in Egyptian culture, and as ubiquitous as the pyramids. Some say it dates back to the pharaohs. It reached its peak in the 1940s, when Cairo was a place of free thought, art, and pleasure.

Young Egyptian women are fighting to reclaim belly dancing as a proud symbol of their cultural heritage. A new generation of choreographers has emerged to train dancers and reshape perceptions of the art form. They hope to list belly dancing on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage register.

With 4 million hits, I do recommend you to watch this short belly dance performance by Lavanya Das Manikpuri, from Chhattisgarh, India.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKe7wihA6mU/