It costs over a thousand USD to take some ocean liners.
What are alternative ways that are cheaper, and how would one go about it?
(No planes)
For context, I know someone who went from China to California by freight ship in the 1990s by bribing the captain with beer and their cooking skills.
I think you can just purchase a passenger ticket on some freight ships. I remember stumbling on the subject on YouTube like 3 years ago. Try doing a search for “passenger on freight ship” into YouTube.
Edit: more like 5 or 6 years ago apparently. I’m old.
Unfortunately, https://web.archive.org/web/20240519145052/https://www.freightertrips.com/bookings/index.html
it seems that freighter trips no longer have official things because of covid.
That…makes sense.