Şarlawuk

Sarlawuk lies amid the low hills of Gyzylbayyr in the Atrek country, west of the Sumbar and Chendir valleys. The dry, rounded slopes and sheltered pastures belong to a landscape remembered in the life and poetry of Magtymguly Pyragy. The eighteenth-century Turkmen poet spent part of his childhood in the Atrek, Sonudag and Gyzylbayyr country, drawing on the oral traditions and experience of the people among whom he lived.