The Okavango Delta nearly makes the New 7 Wonders

Two of Botswana's natural heritage icons, the Kgalagadi Desert and the Okavango Delta, this week edged closer to being included in the new list of "the New 7 Wonders of Nature", a campaign driven by the same company that came up with the New 7 Wonders of the World list in 2007.

The Kgalagadi Desert and the Okavango Delta were on Wednesday announced among the list of 261 qualified national and multinational nominees now competing in the second phase to make it to the top 77.