So when I arrived at 5 a.m. last Tuesday in the sleepily romantic colonial city of Popayán, capital of the Cauca department in southwest Colombia, I figured the only problem in finding a place to stay would be waking up the overnight clerk in whichever hotel was closest to the bus station. I was met with a rude surprise: Popayán had been discovered! Not by tourists, mind you, but by the International Conference of Educational Information Technology, which had snapped up pretty much every decent hotel room in town. Read more here. Semana International delivers news about Colombia in English. Find more in our home.