The 30-man squad is set to travel to all points of the compass over the next few months and also has the added exercise of trying to negotiate a three-week break near the end of its season.
The Highlanders will be visiting Glenorchy at the start of next month for a couple of days for a training camp and will also spend a day at Queenstown on the way back.
In late January, the side will travel to Wanaka for four days of training, a repeat of what the players did last season.
General manager Roger Clark said the team wanted to get round the region and meet supporters.
The Highlanders were also playing a warm-up game in Queenstown on February 11 and then playing the Rebels in a Super 15 game in Invercargill on March 30.
The Super 15 season has a three-week bye in June as the three national teams play games against northern hemisphere sides.
Clark said it was uncharted territory in what to do in that three-week break as last season it did not exist.
Although nothing had been confirmed, he said the Highlanders would most probably continue training and they were looking to arrange a game, probably played in Oamaru, some time during that break.
Once back from the hiatus, the Highlanders have just two games left to play, against the Chiefs, at home, and the Reds, away, before a bye in the final week of the competition.
The Highlanders' wider training squad is being finalised but is expected to be full of Otago players. Clark said players in this squad must come from the provincial unions of the franchise.
Otago hooker Liam Coltman, lock Daniel Ramsay and utility back Glenn Dickson are expected to be in the eight-man wider training squad.
