About Kottayam

Kottayam, amongst the more mountainous districts of the state, provides some finest natural scenes of Kerala sandwiched between Western Ghats on the east and the serene palm fringed backwaters on the west. Most of the beauty of the place can be seen along the road that weaves from Kottayam to the Thekkady’s Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary through rubber, coffee, tea and pepper plantations.

Kottayam is a Kerala’s significant commercial center because of it being a strong cash crops producer. Most of the natural rubber of India grows from the acres of Kottayam’s well kept plantations.

Kottayam gained limelight when it was announced as the India’s first fully literate municipal town. This was an important event since after this a mass movement began to make Kerala the only state of the country to have total literacy.