When I was a kid, we lived in the South Pacific. This was wild, tropical rainforest country, with snakes and all kinds of creepy-crawlers on the ground. We did a lot of camping, and we wanted to make sure we were protected from many-legged or poisonous things that might want to cuddle up in the night.One of the best ways to get a worry-free sleep was in a jungle hammock. The ones we used were WWII vintage GI hammocks. Like the picture, they are/were a classic style of hammock you'd tie between trees, but with a waterproof roof and mosquito-netting sides.Those hammocks had to keep a soldier safe for several years of rough use, and they were built strong (you can still find army surplus hammocks around, and they're worth the price).I don't go camping all the time any more - just the odd trip a couple of times each year to the edge of a river where I'll spend a few days fishing.I've wanted another jungle hammock for a long time, so when I saw this one - for this low price - I jumped at it (you can buy expensive designer hammocks for $150 or more, but when I can buy a good 4-man tent for $35, I'm not going to lay out that money).Having used this model in the bush a few times now, I can recommend it to you. It's super lightweight, and it keeps the bugs out. I've used it both as a hammock, strung between trees - and as a tent. I'm in Arizona, and in many places in this dry country, you just don't find enough trees of the right size, in the right place. So then all I do is cut a couple of forked branches to hold the roof up at each end, bring along pegs I hammer in to keep the bottom square, and tie up the peak and each side of the roof. Works great.I have a couple of hints for you. You'll need good, stout rope to add onto the rings provided at each end of the hammock, in order to tie it to trees. You want a type of slinky rope that's easy to use and will bear your weight - and won't stretch! You need at least 8 feet of rope on each end, as you might have to wrap it around a thick tree trunk and still have room to tie it off. (By the way - practice tying knots that can be easily undone and worked free! If you tie knots that pull tight and get rock-hard when you put all your weight in the hammock, you're going to have trouble breaking camp in the morning).Bring along extra twine or string to tie your roof corners to branches as well. I find a light, soft, nylon type of rope to be best.And while you can string your hammock up with extra guy lines at each corner, to hold the bottom spread open, and the roof in the right shape over your head, you can take a trick from the way we kids used to do it in the jungle: cut saplings and sharpen the ends - stouter ones to hold each end of the hammock open when you jam them in the loops, and longer, skinner ones, to stretch between the outer corners of the roof. You will want to tie the center of the roof to the same tree that you already lashed the hammock to, and it works best if you bend the stick over the top of that. In fact, you may want to cut and fit these saplings at home, and carry them with you (unless you're hiking deep in-country, and then just cut them when you make camp). Bringing them pre-cut makes setting up your hammock a quick job.I am tickled with my jungle hammock - and gave it 4 instead of 5 stars for this: it is a little lightweight. I'm not sure how long the nylon zipper will last (that you zip up after you're in the hammock). The ones on the GI version had heavy brass zippers, built to last forever. Also, the roof seems a little small to me. I'm not sure I'd want to rely on it in a downpour (and so far, I haven't had to). If you do use this in rainy country, you may want to rig a lightweight tarp over it - just don't let it touch the roof.Also, sleeping in a hammock like this, unless you're used to it, can be a little uncomfortable. I bought an inexpensive air mattress that fits nicely inside, and that helps a lot (if it's cold when you're camping, you'll really appreciate the buffer between you and the frosty air). Here's the one I bought: As a Vietnam vet I know jungle hammocks! Probably better than 99. 8% of the population LMAO and I bought two different ones from this Amazon site one was this Rothko which I’ll get to and the other one I’m not gonna say what name but it was made out of a very paperthin synthetic material if you drop a head of a cigarette on it it’s gone! Or an ember from your nearby fire its melted and gone you lay in it and forget about your pocket knife in your back pocket you’re going down! I just don’t understand how they can call it a jungle hammock, they wouldn’t last up through a breakfast in Vietnam!Now for this ROTHCO! Ohhhhhhh yeah Baby, THIS is what I’m talking about! RUGGED?….YOU BET! …CANVAS Baby, CANVAS! Now I Know Canvas isn’t for you new wave of ……people coming up, I dunno if your SOFT lil Fanny’s could handle it, this is a MANS Hammock, or a BAD ASS Woman’s Hammock! Rugged, Durable, will stand up thru VERY Heavy Weather, Terrain, you name it….if you want something that you’ll have the rest of your life ( if ya take CARE of it) THIS is the Hammock for you! ..HUNTERS? Never sleep on that Wet, cold ground again, and wake up with a Rattler in your sleeping blanket! Lol( like I DID! NOT Fun waitin that sucker out!) anyway……..ya got my point…..RIGHT! GET IT?…..GOT IT?…….GOOD!This hammock is HEAVY. Not that there's anything wrong with that - but don't take it on a backpacking trip. It's just too heavy. It's pretty easy to set up, and the bug-guard works great. It will only protect you against extremely light and short duration rainfall though - you will need to put up a real rain fly if it's gonna be raining.The bug-guard is also tricky to set up. It will require plenty of nearby trees to attach to - there are 3 attachment points, all of which must be used to set it up right, on EACH end of the hammock. The center one can go to the tree you hang the hammock from, but the other two must go to trees which are out to the side a bit. That's 6 trees you would need, unless you found two perfect trees with just the right branches sticking out from them in the right direction at the right height...not likely. I also took a couple of thin (1.5" diameter) branches and cut them down to the width of the hammock and notched both ends, then stuck them through the loops at either end of the hammock where the ropes attach to. This helps to maintain the width and keeps it from becoming a gathered-end style hammock...which it is not really designed to be.So for like 35 or 40 bucks it's not bad as a backyard camper, or maybe a car-camper if you know for a fact that your campsite has tons of trees. But do yourself a favor and don't rely on it for a backpacking trip where making the most out of what you happen to find is necessary, and where carry weight is a factor.