Our old friend canarysun will be very interested in this, I'm sure. I bet he'll be hitch-hiking in your direction very soon. (Haven't seen you posting for a while, mate.)

Ran out of money and returned to the UK.

2 Doi Suthep 30bht

3 Huay Tung Tao 20bht + 30bht per person to use the floating huts

5 Monthathon Falls 400bht for foreigner ticket

The insight to gain from this article concerns the nature of what passes for online journalism today. Mostly harmless cut and paste plagiarism from other sites and fluff. The worst consists wholly of various propaganda, outright political lies, and uttertosh. This article is click bait. Advertisement concealed in useless information. Likely penned by one of our resident digital nomads. That worldly hipster listening to music at NorthGate, not buying anything. He knows everything. Except that rent, electricity, and musicians are not actually "free".

Sad thing is that almost nothing that you posted is actually free and most require transportation to get to. There is nothing new or original on your list. The entrance fee to doi suthep cost more than a few meals so that is not nearly free. Waterfalls, I find it ironic that you claim them not to be slippery just a few weeks after a death there. The lake cottages are not free at all. Perhaps you have people paying your way for things and mooch off others so you think they are free.

I had expected to read at least one interesting thing that wasn't common knowledge.

The waterfall mentioned in the article isn't slippery at all. There is still a bit of danger especially when the water is flowing quickly. You can actually walk up it. Here's a video someone made:

Not free over Songkran..

Price to enter??

"Up to you" was the answer!

Paid 40 baht....

Quote : "The town of Chiang Mai is perfectly rectangular"

When I walked around the moat with my Garmin GPS (ie inside the moat but on the pathway along the moat's bank) I measured each side as 1 mile on each side (Give or take +/-). Does this make it square and not rectangular?

all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares...f.y.i.

Swimming in Huay Tung Tao Lake is one of the best ways to cool off from the heat

I find it a pretty shitty list, actually.