According to tradition every year the Armenian youth from Adjara participates in the "Ari Tun" program, launched by RA Ministry of Diaspora. They travel to Armenia, visit the places of interest, live in the Armenian families, and make friends with their peers from the Armenian Diaspora around the world. At night - Jule 6, 2013, the young people leaving for Yerevan, at Surb Prkich Church in Batumi, took part in ceremony called “Khokum” (to ponder, muse). Priest Ararat Gumbalyan blessed the youth. He advised young people not to feel themselves just like tourists in their homeland, but as pilgrims.