Vandiperiyar is 18 km from the city of Thekkady is also an important trading center in this region. The Periyar river that flows down the hill literally divides it into two halves. The prosperity and beauty that contemplates this river brings with it vast produces of tea, coffee and pepper in this region. This region has subsequently become home to a large number of tea industries that bring prosperity and employment opportunities to the people of this land. Vandiperiyar is in fact the largest city that the river meets with Peiyar along its way to the Idukki reservoir .