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Ketti is a small village in the Nilgiri Mountains in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Situated at a height of 7,000 feet, Ketti is on the road to Coonoor from Ooty. The idyllic mountain village of Ketti is home to tribes such as the Todas and the Badagas, who even now continue with their traditional tribal way of life. Ketti represents a rural lifestyle that revolves around caring for livestock, and cultivation of vegetables. The scenery is idyllic in the Ketti valley and the weather salubrious. The Ketti Valley is sometimes referred to as the 'Switzerland of Southern India' due to the year-round climatic conditions which do not fall into any extremes, during summer and winter.
Ketti has been nothing more than a small village-town for a number of years. However, in the past decade, it has seen a perceptible surge of progress. Most of these developments are due to the establishment of the CSI College of Engineering, an engineering institution falling under the auspices of the Anna University, Chennai. Tarred roads, improved employment opportunities, increase in demand for consumer goods, increase in demand for accommodation are just a few of the developments seen in the past decade.
The airport nearest to Ketti is at Coimbatore around 100 km away. Ketti is a part of the now famous Nilgiri Railway with its locomotive trains. Railways link Ketti with nearby places like Coonoor and Ootacamund. Ketti is also easily reached by good, all-weather roads from Ootacamund and Coimbatore within Tamil Nadu in the south and with Bangalore via the Madhumalai-Bandipur Game Sanctuary and Mysore in Karnataka to the north
India Holiday Travel.com provides information on Ketti and different tourist places around Tamil Nadu.
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