Answered by Emily | Feb. 19, 2013 01:57
Hi, you can surely travel from SH to visit the Great Wall. In my opinion, Badaling Great Wall is the most accessible one.
From SH, you can take a high-speed train at the local Hongqiao Railway Station. You will arrive at Beijing South Railway Station within about 5.5h. Upon your arrival, you can take subway line 4 at the South Railway Station MTR Station to Xizhimen Station. Then a taxi can take you to Deshengmen in a few minutes. There you can take bus no. 919 to Badaling Great Wall directly.
While the high-speed train between may be a little expensive: it costs CNY553 for a second class seat and CNY933 for a first class seat.