Pelling Diaries: Part 2 — Dogs, Views, and Peak Mortification 🎒✨
(Starting off with this picture of the hotel because look at how gorgeous this place is! 🥹👇)
So, after the misty dream that was Temi Tea Garden, we headed straight up to Upper Pelling because my family is completely obsessed with peace, quiet, and getting away from the crowd.
We pulled up to this small but incredibly cute hotel......a picture-perfect white building with bright red sloping roofs. But before we could even process the aesthetics, the ultimate welcome committee arrived. THREE. MASSIVE. DOGS. Two gorgeous German Shepherds and one golden retriever literally lunged straight at me and my sister. Absolute fluff overload right at the entrance! 😭🐶❤️
While the grown-ups were handling the boring official check-in entry stuff and the hotel staff was taking our luggage, my sis and I immediately went off to roam around the nearby lanes. And literally every single house and local shop had a small dog house built in front of them, and the latches were wide open because dogs SHOULD ROAM FREE! 🥺🌾 (Unfortunately, I don't have any pics of the dog houses! 😭)
We ended up sitting on a bench near a local alcohol shop that had one of these dog houses. Suddenly, this giant, regal, royal Saint Bernard walks out. Now, they look massive and slightly scary, but they are the absolute biggest mushes on the planet. This majestic boy slowly walks out, shoots one single look at us, literally shrugs his shoulders as if saying, “Eh, tourists,” goes on his way to pee, and then casually walks right back inside his house. The absolute main character energy of Pelling dogs is unmatched! 😭👑🐕
Eventually, we headed back and checked into our room. Now, if you know me, you know my absolute first instinct in any hotel room is to inspect the bathroom because I am dangerously particular about sanitation.
I walk in, and this bathroom is HUGE. Right in front of the commode, there was this massive, floor-to-ceiling curtain. Intrigued, I walked over and whipped it open...
...and my jaw dropped. It was a literal glass window overlooking the entire valley, the main road we just traveled through, all the local shops, and the active paragliding ground. Just people everywhere. 💀
(Adding the bathroom video here because lol, you can literally hear the depth of the situation and me explaining the situation in bengali😭😂)
I was so amazed that I came running out of the bathroom and announced loudly to my family in Bengali:
“Ab hagte hagte nazara dekhenge!” 🚽🏔️👀
(Now we shall watch the scenery while pooping!)
Unknown to my naive, confident self... the hotel staff member who was helping us with our luggage was also Bengali.
The silence lasted for a fraction of a second before this poor man started wheezing and laughing out loud. The absolute depth of the situation hit me all at once. I turned as red as a literal tomato 🍅, lost the ability to perceive time and space, and ran straight back into the safe haven of that exact same valley-view bathroom to hide forever.
THE MOST HUMILIATING THING EVERRRR!!!😭😭😭😭😭
Dropping the rest of our travel memories here! No face reveals, just pure mountain peace:
A bit of a long post..... if u read till the end, take lovee😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️
and lemme know if u wanna hear pellling diaries part 3(only o nemore story to go for me to move on to kashmir diaries😭)