Altogether, they took a number of trips to Cañar over a five or six year period and developed some touching friendships with her neighbors. Canar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador, in the course of some two hundred pages, describes a number of milestones in the lives of the local Cañar, including birth, death, marriage, fiestas, healing and cleaning rituals, and ending up with a multi-day hike along the Ecuadorian Inca Trail to the ruins of Ingapirca.