Taj Mahal

Yesterday we visited the Taj Mahal, it was crazy big. My stomach has been upset so I've had to lay off spicy foods the last week, it's hard to do, but it's important since bathrooms are getting scarce.
We're traveling the Golden Triangle, which is the triumvirate of Delhi, Agra (Taj Mahal) and Jaipur - it's the most common route tourists take when visiting India. We're on our way to Jaipur, known as the pink city. It's the capital of the state of Rajastan, Indias largest state located in the Northwest. We hired a private car to drive us from Delhi and we'll be traveling thus for the next couple of days. We're traveling with V's family, they're very nice, though it's been a long time since they've been here so they're as much of tourists as we are :)
Rajastan is very different from Delhi. We're out in the desert here, and as we drive along, we pass camels painted in bright colors and hauling carts of goods or people. Indians love color and the more decorative things are, the better. Even the big commercial trucks are painted in bright shades of blue, yellow and red, with writing and markings on every side with flowers and dodads hanging from mirrors, windows, etc.
It's less crowded here, and I'm getting my first view of the Indian countryside - small huts nestled in fields of yellow flowers. I'm not sure what plant it is that is in season, but they look like mustard plants (though when we took a closer look, we discovered that it isn't mustard, but we're not sure what it is). We're going to spend one day traveling in Jaipur before a rushed 6 hour drive back to Delhi to catch our late night flight to Mumbai. We only had time to stop off at one fort outside the downtown of Jaipur, an amazing place where people just wander around. There aren't any nooks or crannies that are off-limits, so V and I almost couldn't find our way out of the place. It was an enormous structure, and the rooms just went on and on, in a haphazard way. The only rooms we veered away from was the areas tourists had dedicated as outhouses.
Tomorrow we're heading back to Bombay (Mumai) so that V can continue her work. I'm considering taking a side trip to Goa with Rohit, as it's supposed to be a great place to go. I know I don't really want to spend more time in Mumbai - I don't like that city at all, especially after getting out into the countryside where it's less crowded.