Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Instead of stuffing
themselves with turkey and all the fixings, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spent
Thanksgiving cruising around Vietnam's largest city on a motorbike.
 Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie spent Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006 cruising on a motorbike
while touring Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Prior to arriving in Vietnam, the
couple made a surprise visit to Cambodia where they visited a former Khmer
Rouge death camp, now a genocide museum. Jolie has an adopted son from
Cambodia, 5-year-old Maddox. [AP]
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Pitt was spotted
driving the motorbike through the city center with Jolie perched on the seat
behind him Thursday in a country where virtually everyone travels on the
two-wheeled machines. The couple later dined at a popular Vietnamese restaurant
converted from an old temple.
When asked by a local reporter from Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper about whether
he was worried about navigating the chaotic streets, Pitt smiled and said,
"There will be no problem."
Pitt also said he and Jolie had a great time exploring the former US-backed
wartime capital of South Vietnam, known then as Saigon. It fell to northern
communist forces on April 30, 1975, marking the end of the Vietnam War.
"We had a wonderful day in Vietnam," the newspaper quoted Pitt as saying.
The couple toured the city just days after US.President George W. Bush and
first lady Laura Bush made a brief stop there on Monday to visit the stock
market and tour a bird flu laboratory, after attending the 21-member
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hanoi.
Pitt and Jolie arrived unannounced in Vietnam after an earlier surprise visit
this week to Cambodia where on Wednesday they toured a former Khmer Rouge death
camp, which is now a genocide museum.
The 31-year-old actress, who has an adopted son from Cambodia, also met with
officials to discuss a forest conservation project in the country's northwest
near Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold. She has pledged up to US$1.3
million over five years for the program.
Jolie's Cambodian son, Maddox, is 5 years old. She and Pitt also have a
1-year-old daughter, Zahara, who was adopted from Ethiopia. Jolie gave birth to
the couple's daughter, Shiloh, in Namibia in May.