Oprah Winfrey hikes up Auckland’s Mt Eden before her Civic Theatre event

Media superstar Oprah Winfrey walked up Auckland's Mt Eden during her recent visit to the city. Photo / Instagram via @oprah

Oprah Winfrey was spotted on top of one of Auckland’s most famous volcanoes the day before her show.

The media personality held a one-night event at the Civic Theatre in Auckland’s CBD on Sunday as part of her Oprah In Conversation tour across Australia and New Zealand.

In the post, she can be seen standing on Mt Eden’s boardwalk in front of the Auckland skyline, holding up two thumbs-up.

She captioned the photo: “Last stop on my speaking tour: Auckland, New Zealand! See you tomorrow night.”

Winfrey’s December 14 show was originally meant to be held at Spark Arena on Auckland’s waterfront. However, it was relocated to the smaller Civic Theatre last month.

Winfrey last performed in New Zealand in 2015, to a sell-out audience at Spark Arena (then named Vector Arena).

In 2015, Winfrey was spotted walking up Mt Eden, dining at One Tree Grill, and made a private visit to Ōrākei Marae, which she told the Herald at the time was “a truly spiritual experience”.

Dressed in a kākahu, she was greeted by a pōwhiri and toured the marae.

“To be in the presence of people who ... have not just regard, but reverence for who they are, where they’ve come from, who their people are, respect for their ancestors ... I think, if everyone in the world did that it would be a different world,” Winfrey said after her visit.

When she returned in 2017 for the Wrinkle in Time shoot, Winfrey posted photos of Central Otago to her millions of Instagram followers, with a hashtag “I love New Zealand”.

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