Kottayam,
among the state’s more mountainous districts, provides some
of Kerala’s finest natural scenes, sandwiched as it is between
serene palm-fringed backwaters on the west and the Western ghats
on the east. Much of this beauty is laid out in all its glory along
the road which winds from Kottayam to the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary
in Thekkady through plantations of rubber, tea, coffee and pepper.
Kottayam is also an important commercial centre, for it is a producer
an array of cash crops. Most of India’s natural rubber
is prodiced in acres
of well-kept
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