In 2008 Dubai’s Ghantoot Club polo field was converted to an AFL field for a NAB Cup game. Brad Moran jumps above Josh Fraser at a centre bounce. Source: News Limited

Marcus Ashcroft takes a run with children in Nyanga township during a Lions visit to Cape Town in 1998. Source: News Corp Australia

Five years later the Lions were back for a pre-season match against Fremantle. Matthew Clarke and Peter Mann captained their respective teams. Source: News Corp Australia

The Abu Dhabi heat might have gone to Brett Ratten’s head in 2011. The Carlton coach declared his team was a “massive chance” to win the flag the next year. He was sacked before Round 23. Here he joins Heath Scotland for a camel ride. Source: News Limited

Scotland and Blake Bray wrestle in the middle east. Source: News Limited

Ratts assesses the kicking style of Abu Dhabi local Wageh Khlelle. Shades of Levi Casboult. Source: News Limited

In 2008 the Blues were in South Africa. Brendan Fevola meets a young AIDS victim in Johannesburg. Source: News Limited

Heritier Lumumba and Luke Ball on the original AFL high-altitude camp. Picture: COLLINGWOODFC.COM.AU Source: Supplied

Travis Cloke leads teammates into the Grand Canyon. Picture: COLLINGWOODFC.COM.AU Source: Supplied

Heath Shaw finds the going a bit less comfortable. Picture: COLLINGWOODFC.COM.AU Source: Supplied

Bombers (from left) Ricky Dyson, Jobe Watson and Adam Ramanauskas purify themselves at the Enryakuji Temple in Japan in 2006. The trio were part of a group learning about the spirit of the monks. Their patience has come in handy lately. Source: News Corp Australia

Fremantle players teach inmates at Potchesfstroom Prison in South Africa the finer points of Aussie rules in 2008. Source: News Corp Australia

A proud Des Headland with his South African necklace. Source: News Corp Australia

The Cats have publicly stated that high-altitude camps overseas don’t achieve much and are happy to visit Falls Creek instead. In 2006 they played Port Adelaide in London and while it doesn’t strictly fit our criteria, this picture is too good to leave out. This image has been seared into Darren Milburn’s mind ever since. Source: AFP

Mathew Stokes gets a kick away during the match. Source: AFP

Gary Ablett does his best impersonation of Luke Skywalker from The Empire Strikes Back during Gold Coast’s camp in Arizona at the end of 2013. If he gets any colder Campbell Brown will have to stuff him in a tauntaun. Source: Supplied

Steven May obviously wasn’t paying attention when Brown flexed his fist. Source: Supplied

Chance Bateman shows the strain of a week on the Kokoda Track in 2004. Source: News Corp Australia

The Hawks have forged a close bond with New Zealand since Peter Everitt struggled up a mountainside, with a couple of Kiwis now on the club’s list. Source: News Limited

This would be much easier if the raft was facing the other way, guys. Source: News Limited

Ben Dixon, Richie Vandenberg, Luke Hodge recover in a freezing stream. There was another photo in this sequence but it is NSFW. Source: News Limited

Demons legend Ron Barassi was on hand to guide some Demons, including a young James Frawley (second from left) on the Great Wall of China in 2007. Source: Supplied

The Roos are devotees of Utah altitude training, which they clearly believe has benefits for coaches as well as players. Source: Supplied

The Roos hit the trail. Source: Supplied

Fitness coach Darren Burgess is pushing Port players, including Matt White and Kane Mitchell, to breaking point in Dubai. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: News Corp Australia

This is why Port players overrun everyone in the final quarter. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: News Corp Australia

The Tigers’ budget hasn’t generally extended to overseas camps but they did venture to Arizona in 2011. Dylan Grimes and Dustin Martin take the lead on a hike in Sabino Canyon. Source: Supplied

Last year the Saints faced a blizzard during a run in Boulder, Colorado. Source: No Source

The Saints are proving on their current New Zealand trip that AFL players and rafts don’t mix. Maverick Weller pulls Jack Newnes back into the boat. Picture: Colleen Petch Source: News Corp Australia

Jack Stevens and Adam Schneider on an early morning mountain bike ride. Picture: Colleen Petch Source: News Corp Australia

Fire in the hole! The Swans were in Papua New Guinea in 2000, with Ryan O'Keefe, Rowan Warfe, Andrew Schauble and Brett Kirk finding a discarded grenade on the Kokoda Track. Source: News Limited

Brett Kirk is at one with the PNG jungle. Source: News Corp Australia

Swans (from left) Ryan O'Keefe, Leo Barry, Rowan Warfe, Brett Kirk, Gerard Bennett and Andrew Schauble on the Kokoda Track. Source: News Corp Australia

Eagles players helped build houses in Cambodian villages in 2012 but we don’t have photos of that. We do, however, have this picture of Drew Banfield and Nathan Buckley playing an exhibition match at Surrey Cricket Ground in London in 1997. Source: News Limited

Judging by the grin on Woosha’s face (and that thing in his hands), West Coast won. Source: News Limited

Dogs (from left) Liam Jones, Andrew Hooper, Liam Picken, Jarrad Grant, Justin Sherman, Ben Hudson and Ryan Griffen on a player development camp in 2010. Only Picken and Grant are still at the club, so that didn’t work out so well. Source: News Limited

Andrew Hooper tries the canyon swing with a bin on his head for some reason. Source: News Limited

Barry Hall does look genuinely terrifying doing the Haka. Rodney Eade and Bob Murphy not so much. Source: News Limited