Explore Machu Picchu with your class

Cusco Region, Peru

Machu Picchu sits on a mountain saddle nearly 8,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes, and the setting is half the lesson: green peaks drop away on every side, clouds move below the site, and the Urubamba River bends around the mountain's base far underfoot. Street View walked the sanctuary's stone paths, so your class can explore the Inca citadel together — the agricultural terraces stepping down the slopes, the granite buildings, and the precisely fitted stonework that has held for five centuries without mortar.

Lead your students through the site and let the questions drive the walk. Why build a city somewhere this remote? How were the terraces farmed? How did builders move and fit these stones without iron tools or wheels? Every student sees the same view and can point with their own cursor, so the class reasons through it together — engineering, agriculture, and empire in one place.

It anchors a unit on the Inca, on South American geography, or on how civilizations adapt to extreme environments. The field trip is free, students need no accounts, and your join code keeps it class-only — the lost city, found in one class period.

No account, no download — pick a field trip name, send the link, and you're walking together in seconds.