Hi David, Sorry for the belated response. As far as I know there is no consolidated list for fees at Natron, and belive me I have tried to find one! You can look here, towards the bottom of the page: https://www.worldviewcampsite.com/activities.

The Natron gate fees are super confusing, and my information may not be up to date. I believe that gate fees are $35 per plus $20 per vehicle. If you camp, it’ll be the camping fee for wherever you pick plus ~$35 pppn camping fee.

I advise you make your peace with the annoying fee structure and go anyway, it is a really beautiful area.

Klein’s Gate to Wasso took us 1h 28m. From Wasso to the roundabout at Sonjo took us 1h 15m. This stretch is now tar, but it was not done when we were there so I expect this stretch you will now be able to do faster if you wish. From that roundabout to the lake the road goes back to tar, which took us 3h 21m, however we took the less driven lakeshore route, I gather the main road is considerably faster. I’d recommend the lakeshore route, it was stunning. I’ll post a screenshot of our route on the blog.

Very glad you like the blog! Natron is wonderful and worth suffering the fee shenanigans. As you say, go with a good attitude, leave yourself time to wait around at gates and bring a lot of patience. The people and landscape are fantastic, the toll collectors and officials can be trying. Don’t hesitate to reach out if there is any planning mystery that we might be able to help with.

Beautiful pictures, well written – that help us at home, to get travel hungry again!

Greetings from switzerland,

Heinz

Thanks!