Sunday Drive to Pakenham

Well not quite Pakenham, but it felt like it. 

Yesterday afternoon I took the scooter for a Sunday drive to explore the outskirts of Vientiane.  It seemed like I was driving forever past houses, shacks, shops and petrol stations. Almost  like being on the Monash freeway- it was three lanes in both directions, narrowing to two then one lane and of course there were bottle necks and traffic jams.

There was no Fountain Gate shopping centre, but about 20 km out I found this long row of roadside shops selling clay cooking pots, basketware and bamboo items.