Coqui Coqui has a great new guest house in Coba. Nearby in Punta Laguna there is a spider monkey refuge. We'd heard about it for years because one of the owners of the hacienda Yunku is an anthropologist who volunteers there several weeks a year. It was only recently that we visited and it was absolutely magical. We huffed and puffed along a slippery root covered trail down to the lagoon without having seen a single monkey. Our guide was a 12 year old with little patience or compassion for my aging lungs or feet. Once at waters edge he was easily persuaded to canoe us across the lagoon in hopes of seeing or hearing the small colony of howler monkeys he said lived on the opposite shore. I'm not convinced they do. On the strait and narrow (and paved) road back to the entrance we encountered a group of 50 or so monkeys. It was absolutely heavenly. see I'm not so cynical after all.