Woke up sweating at 9am, wish I had a room with AC. It was about 30 degrees in my room and soo humid. Today was to be a very expensive day, with high entry prices at all the tourist sites I visited, oh well. Firstly I walked to the Temple of Literature. It was really pretty gardens, ponds and houses. It was the first university in Hanoi according to a guide I overheard. The temperature crept up and up. Outside I had my first sugar cane drink which was really good and very sweet (funny that being pure sugar) I walked a few km towards the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum complex, which was closed. I went into the museum, which wasn’t really my kind-of museum to put it politely. but they did have AC. I walked
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