India Travel Review: Chamundeshwari Temple, Mysore Palace, Silkworm Farm

Company did a great job booking, and a great job in the field.  Everything went according to plan.

I had a driver take me between locations (same driver each day, even though my trip was broken up with non-vacation days), and a guide specialized for each temple and the day seeing silk farming, manufacture, and auction.  The guides were generally pretty good, but about half felt a bit hurried; the other half felt like I was being toured around with an old friend, which is my preference.  The visit to see silk farming, manufacture, and auction was especially interesting because it was India's Republic Day, so many things were closed -- but the guide was still able to find great things to see including an operating factory (to convert silk worm cocoons into silk thread), the market (which wasn't doing an auction that day) and a nearby farm where they feed and raise the silk worms into cocoons.  Guides at temples were good.