Miss Vietnam contestants were moved to tears when they visited Uncle Ho's hometown.
Miss Vietnam 2018 contestants were moved to tears when they returned to Sen village to visit Uncle Ho's hometown during the Northern Final Round.
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| On the afternoon of July 17, when the weather was sunny and rainy, the Miss Vietnam 2018 contestants visited Uncle Ho's hometown, Sen village. |
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| Along with the 38 contestants are representatives of the Miss Vietnam contest's organizing committee - journalist Vu Tien, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Tien Phong newspaper and Miss Do My Linh - member of the jury. |
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| Visiting Uncle Ho's hometown in Sen village is one of the extracurricular activities of the Northern Final round of 38 Northern Final round contestants in Cua Lo, Nghe An. |
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| Contestants, along with representatives of the Organizing Committee and the Jury, offered flowers and incense at the Ho Chi Minh Memorial House. |
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| For many Miss Vietnam contestants, this was the first time they visited Uncle Ho's hometown, so they could not contain their emotions. Especially the contestants from the South. |
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| Inside the Ho Chi Minh memorial house in Sen village (Kim Lien), Kim Lien commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An province. |
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| Representatives of the contest's Organizing Committee and 38 Northern finalists offered incense in the memorial house. |
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| Behind the shady bamboo hedge is a simple, modest five-room thatched house of the family of Mr. Nguyen Sinh Sac, Uncle Ho's father. After passing the Associate Degree exam in the year of Tan Suu 1901, Mr. Nguyen Sinh Sac and his children left Chua village (Hoang Tru) to live in his paternal home village, Sen. This house was built by the people of Sen village using public funds to celebrate Mr. Nguyen Sinh Sac's passing the Associate Degree exam, which brought honor to the whole village. |
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| The two outer rooms are where the altar is placed and where guests are received. The third room is where Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thanh - Uncle Ho's eldest sister lives. The remaining two rooms are where the family rests and lives. The fifth room has only one bed and is also where Mr. Nguyen Sinh Khiem and Nguyen Sinh Cung (Uncle Ho) rest. |
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| He lived in this house during his teenage years from late 1901 to mid-1906. |
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| After 50 years away from his homeland, wandering to find a way to save the nation, making a revolution to free the country from French colonial rule, he returned to Sen village twice in 1957 and 1961. |
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| When listening to stories about Uncle Ho, many Miss Vietnam contestants could not hold back their emotions. |
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