Capital of the
Yucatan state of
Mexico.
Roughly a little more than
a million people live in this quite
uninteresting city that features a nice
theatre, a park, and (as in any Mexican town) a big
market with a lot of nice/useless/edible/
you-name-it stuff.
As the city is the biggest on the entire Yucatan
peninsula (a rank soon to be overtaken by
Cancun) the community once tried to build a boulevard to keep up with the boulevard in
Mexico City. Unsuccessfull they were indeed.
The city is a good place to rest for a day or two, if you're a backpacker travelling by bus to eg.
Chichen Itza or
Cozumel. Staying there for a week isn't recommended, unless you
rent a car and go out into the
country side.