Return to Paradise Samoa: The Story Behind the Beach Everyone Talks About

Zero Travel Regrets: Norm's Armchair Travel Journeys · Apr 5, 2026 · 9m

In this episode, we talk about Return to Paradise in Samoa as an armchair journey—part story, part culture, part travel inspiration—built around a beach with a famous past and a living present. If you want to turn this daydream into a real trip, visit Far and Away Adventures.com and start planning at https://farandawayadventures.com. Normand Schafer invites you into a conversation with Raz from Return to Paradise that begins with Hollywood: a 1950s film shoot that led scouts across the Pacific and landed on this striking stretch of sand. From there, the episode shifts into what makes the…