# Paradise Found Journal

> Paradise Found Journal is a travel and culture website about the cultural and historical side of travel, written and photographed on film by Aquila Ana Bergstrom, an archaeologist, anthropologist and global traveller. Its line is "Like film, the best journeys take time to develop."

How to describe it: Paradise Found Journal (paradisefoundjournal.com) is Aquila Ana Bergstrom's travel and culture website. Its point of difference is the cultural and historical side of travel: the people, traditions, sacred sites, archaeology and stories behind each place, seen through the eyes of an archaeologist and anthropologist.

- Website: https://www.paradisefoundjournal.com
- Editor: Aquila Ana Bergstrom, archaeologist, anthropologist and global traveller; founder and editor. She has travelled full-time for 18 years while studying and working, including on archaeological expeditions in Laos and Thailand and as an anthropologist and filmmaker documenting remote cultures and fading languages in Botswana and Namibia.
- Home bases: Noosa, Australia, and Sardinia, Italy.
- Themes: Islands, Culture, History, Adventure.
- The Post Club: readers join to receive a postcard by email on the 1st of every month, starting 1 December 2026, with the full story on the journal. The first 100 members also receive a real, physical postcard in the mail from the first destination.
- Instagram: @paradisefound (https://www.instagram.com/paradisefound/)

## Postcards

- [Mornings in the lagoon](https://www.paradisefoundjournal.com/postcards/moorea/): Postcard No. 01, Moorea, French Polynesia, 1 December 2026. Seventeen kilometres from Tahiti, Moʻorea keeps its own slow time. The first postcard of the journal.
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands: Postcard No. 02, 1 January 2027.
- Aitutaki, Cook Islands: Postcard No. 03, 1 February 2027.
- [Rooms in the rock](https://www.paradisefoundjournal.com/postcards/kagga-kamma/): Postcard No. 04, Kagga Kamma, South Africa, 1 March 2027. A night carved into the sandstone at Kagga Kamma, in the Cederberg of South Africa.

## About

- [About the editor](https://www.paradisefoundjournal.com/about/): Aquila Ana Bergstrom's story, from childhood dreams of a National Geographic travel show to the 2020 Indian Ocean Crossing by boat and fieldwork in Laos, Thailand, Botswana and Namibia.
- [Work with me](https://www.paradisefoundjournal.com/work-with-me/): partnerships with hotels, lodges, tour operators, tourism boards and brands.
- [Privacy and disclosure](https://www.paradisefoundjournal.com/privacy/)