Our hotel map is good but it's not exactly to scale. We saw the location of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and reckoned we could easily get there on foot. We were right. We took most of the morning after a late breakfast to see that section of the city. Being winter hours, all buildings closed at 11:30 am for the day. Neither of us were too interested in the mausoleum, his house, nor the museum anyway. We did like the One Pillar Pagoda in the area.
We kept walking towards West Lake and Truck Bach Lake. It was time for lunch. We stopped at a little place facing one of the lakes. It took a while as they "outsourced" our fried rice. The hot ginger tea came quickly and was welcomed due to the cool temperature outside. We found a sauna that we'd seen mention of online. It was nice to get warm!
We took a taxi back to the hotel for about $2.