Mattupetty (13 km from Munnar):
Situated at a height of 1700 m), Mattupetty is famous for its highly specialized dairy farm - the Indo Swiss Livestock Project. Over a 100 varieties of high yielding cattle are reared here. Visitors are allowed into three of the 11 cattle sheds at the farm.
The Mattupetty lake and dam, just a short distance from the farm, is a very mountain goat (hemitragas hylocres) which is fast becoming extinct, is now found in the Eravikulam - Rajamala region.
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