About ten kilometres north-east of Borama lie the ruins of Amud, an abandoned medieval town that was a significant trade and religious centre for several centuries before being deserted. The remains spread over a substantial hillside — stone walls of houses, the outlines of small mosques with their mihrabs still pointing east, and scattered grave markers.
The Amud site is not maintained as an archaeological park in any formal sense. You wander among the ruins, pick up pottery shards that locals have left where they were found, and try to read the Arabic inscriptions on the gravestones, many of which date to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A guide from town is helpful — there are no signs and the layout takes some reading.
A few hours from Borama is enough. Bring water and good shoes; the surrounding ground is rocky and the cover is sparse.